How do you sudo with xonsh?

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I get the error xonsh: subprocess mode: permission denied: sudo.










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  • Can you run sudo successfully when you're not using xonsh?
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  • Yes. I also checked that the ownership and rights of my other shells and xonsh match. The only difference is that xonsh is in /usr/local/bin.
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I get the error xonsh: subprocess mode: permission denied: sudo.










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  • Can you run sudo successfully when you're not using xonsh?
    – larsks
    Aug 12 '15 at 18:47










  • Yes. I also checked that the ownership and rights of my other shells and xonsh match. The only difference is that xonsh is in /usr/local/bin.
    – Emre
    Aug 12 '15 at 18:52













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I get the error xonsh: subprocess mode: permission denied: sudo.










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I get the error xonsh: subprocess mode: permission denied: sudo.







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  • Can you run sudo successfully when you're not using xonsh?
    – larsks
    Aug 12 '15 at 18:47










  • Yes. I also checked that the ownership and rights of my other shells and xonsh match. The only difference is that xonsh is in /usr/local/bin.
    – Emre
    Aug 12 '15 at 18:52

















  • Can you run sudo successfully when you're not using xonsh?
    – larsks
    Aug 12 '15 at 18:47










  • Yes. I also checked that the ownership and rights of my other shells and xonsh match. The only difference is that xonsh is in /usr/local/bin.
    – Emre
    Aug 12 '15 at 18:52
















Can you run sudo successfully when you're not using xonsh?
– larsks
Aug 12 '15 at 18:47




Can you run sudo successfully when you're not using xonsh?
– larsks
Aug 12 '15 at 18:47












Yes. I also checked that the ownership and rights of my other shells and xonsh match. The only difference is that xonsh is in /usr/local/bin.
– Emre
Aug 12 '15 at 18:52





Yes. I also checked that the ownership and rights of my other shells and xonsh match. The only difference is that xonsh is in /usr/local/bin.
– Emre
Aug 12 '15 at 18:52











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It's a bug in xonsh. In the build_ins.py module, xonsh attempts to determine if a file is "binary" or not by opening it and reading a few bytes:



 def _is_binary(fname, limit=80):
with open(fname, 'rb') as f:
for i in range(limit):
char = f.read(1)
if char == b'':
return True
if char == b'n':
return False
if char == b'':
return False
return False


Security sensitive programs like sudo are often executable but not readable, so this blows up.






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  • Here is a possible patch for this behavior.
    – larsks
    Aug 12 '15 at 19:11










  • Thanks. I don't understand how nobody realized sudo doesn't work.
    – Emre
    Aug 12 '15 at 20:48










  • My guess is that not many people are using xonsh. It's not something I had ever heard of until I saw your question.
    – larsks
    Aug 12 '15 at 20:49






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    To be clear, sudo does work even with this bug on many systems (which is why it was missed). Some distributions choose to make sudo unreadable-but-executable. This is not categorically true for all Linux distros. There is a PR into xonsh that fixes this.
    – Anthony Scopatz
    Aug 18 '15 at 1:11






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    The bug has now been fixed in master. Sorry about the problem in the first place.
    – Anthony Scopatz
    Aug 18 '15 at 14:21










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It's a bug in xonsh. In the build_ins.py module, xonsh attempts to determine if a file is "binary" or not by opening it and reading a few bytes:



 def _is_binary(fname, limit=80):
with open(fname, 'rb') as f:
for i in range(limit):
char = f.read(1)
if char == b'':
return True
if char == b'n':
return False
if char == b'':
return False
return False


Security sensitive programs like sudo are often executable but not readable, so this blows up.






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  • Here is a possible patch for this behavior.
    – larsks
    Aug 12 '15 at 19:11










  • Thanks. I don't understand how nobody realized sudo doesn't work.
    – Emre
    Aug 12 '15 at 20:48










  • My guess is that not many people are using xonsh. It's not something I had ever heard of until I saw your question.
    – larsks
    Aug 12 '15 at 20:49






  • 1




    To be clear, sudo does work even with this bug on many systems (which is why it was missed). Some distributions choose to make sudo unreadable-but-executable. This is not categorically true for all Linux distros. There is a PR into xonsh that fixes this.
    – Anthony Scopatz
    Aug 18 '15 at 1:11






  • 1




    The bug has now been fixed in master. Sorry about the problem in the first place.
    – Anthony Scopatz
    Aug 18 '15 at 14:21














up vote
5
down vote



accepted










It's a bug in xonsh. In the build_ins.py module, xonsh attempts to determine if a file is "binary" or not by opening it and reading a few bytes:



 def _is_binary(fname, limit=80):
with open(fname, 'rb') as f:
for i in range(limit):
char = f.read(1)
if char == b'':
return True
if char == b'n':
return False
if char == b'':
return False
return False


Security sensitive programs like sudo are often executable but not readable, so this blows up.






share|improve this answer




















  • Here is a possible patch for this behavior.
    – larsks
    Aug 12 '15 at 19:11










  • Thanks. I don't understand how nobody realized sudo doesn't work.
    – Emre
    Aug 12 '15 at 20:48










  • My guess is that not many people are using xonsh. It's not something I had ever heard of until I saw your question.
    – larsks
    Aug 12 '15 at 20:49






  • 1




    To be clear, sudo does work even with this bug on many systems (which is why it was missed). Some distributions choose to make sudo unreadable-but-executable. This is not categorically true for all Linux distros. There is a PR into xonsh that fixes this.
    – Anthony Scopatz
    Aug 18 '15 at 1:11






  • 1




    The bug has now been fixed in master. Sorry about the problem in the first place.
    – Anthony Scopatz
    Aug 18 '15 at 14:21












up vote
5
down vote



accepted







up vote
5
down vote



accepted






It's a bug in xonsh. In the build_ins.py module, xonsh attempts to determine if a file is "binary" or not by opening it and reading a few bytes:



 def _is_binary(fname, limit=80):
with open(fname, 'rb') as f:
for i in range(limit):
char = f.read(1)
if char == b'':
return True
if char == b'n':
return False
if char == b'':
return False
return False


Security sensitive programs like sudo are often executable but not readable, so this blows up.






share|improve this answer












It's a bug in xonsh. In the build_ins.py module, xonsh attempts to determine if a file is "binary" or not by opening it and reading a few bytes:



 def _is_binary(fname, limit=80):
with open(fname, 'rb') as f:
for i in range(limit):
char = f.read(1)
if char == b'':
return True
if char == b'n':
return False
if char == b'':
return False
return False


Security sensitive programs like sudo are often executable but not readable, so this blows up.







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  • Here is a possible patch for this behavior.
    – larsks
    Aug 12 '15 at 19:11










  • Thanks. I don't understand how nobody realized sudo doesn't work.
    – Emre
    Aug 12 '15 at 20:48










  • My guess is that not many people are using xonsh. It's not something I had ever heard of until I saw your question.
    – larsks
    Aug 12 '15 at 20:49






  • 1




    To be clear, sudo does work even with this bug on many systems (which is why it was missed). Some distributions choose to make sudo unreadable-but-executable. This is not categorically true for all Linux distros. There is a PR into xonsh that fixes this.
    – Anthony Scopatz
    Aug 18 '15 at 1:11






  • 1




    The bug has now been fixed in master. Sorry about the problem in the first place.
    – Anthony Scopatz
    Aug 18 '15 at 14:21
















  • Here is a possible patch for this behavior.
    – larsks
    Aug 12 '15 at 19:11










  • Thanks. I don't understand how nobody realized sudo doesn't work.
    – Emre
    Aug 12 '15 at 20:48










  • My guess is that not many people are using xonsh. It's not something I had ever heard of until I saw your question.
    – larsks
    Aug 12 '15 at 20:49






  • 1




    To be clear, sudo does work even with this bug on many systems (which is why it was missed). Some distributions choose to make sudo unreadable-but-executable. This is not categorically true for all Linux distros. There is a PR into xonsh that fixes this.
    – Anthony Scopatz
    Aug 18 '15 at 1:11






  • 1




    The bug has now been fixed in master. Sorry about the problem in the first place.
    – Anthony Scopatz
    Aug 18 '15 at 14:21















Here is a possible patch for this behavior.
– larsks
Aug 12 '15 at 19:11




Here is a possible patch for this behavior.
– larsks
Aug 12 '15 at 19:11












Thanks. I don't understand how nobody realized sudo doesn't work.
– Emre
Aug 12 '15 at 20:48




Thanks. I don't understand how nobody realized sudo doesn't work.
– Emre
Aug 12 '15 at 20:48












My guess is that not many people are using xonsh. It's not something I had ever heard of until I saw your question.
– larsks
Aug 12 '15 at 20:49




My guess is that not many people are using xonsh. It's not something I had ever heard of until I saw your question.
– larsks
Aug 12 '15 at 20:49




1




1




To be clear, sudo does work even with this bug on many systems (which is why it was missed). Some distributions choose to make sudo unreadable-but-executable. This is not categorically true for all Linux distros. There is a PR into xonsh that fixes this.
– Anthony Scopatz
Aug 18 '15 at 1:11




To be clear, sudo does work even with this bug on many systems (which is why it was missed). Some distributions choose to make sudo unreadable-but-executable. This is not categorically true for all Linux distros. There is a PR into xonsh that fixes this.
– Anthony Scopatz
Aug 18 '15 at 1:11




1




1




The bug has now been fixed in master. Sorry about the problem in the first place.
– Anthony Scopatz
Aug 18 '15 at 14:21




The bug has now been fixed in master. Sorry about the problem in the first place.
– Anthony Scopatz
Aug 18 '15 at 14:21

















 

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