I have a directory on an nfs mount, which on the server is at /home/myname/.rubies
Root cannot access this directory:
[mitchell.usher@server ~]$ stat /home/mitchell.usher/.rubies
File: `/home/mitchell.usher/.rubies'
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 32768 directory
Device: 15h/21d Inode: 245910 Links: 3
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 970/mitchell.usher) Gid: ( 100/ users)
Access: 2016-08-22 15:06:15.000000000 +0000
Modify: 2016-08-22 14:55:00.000000000 +0000
Change: 2016-08-22 14:55:00.000000000 +0000
[mitchell.usher@server ~]$ sudo !!
sudo stat /home/mitchell.usher/.rubies
stat: cannot stat `/home/mitchell.usher/.rubies': Permission denied
I am attempting to copy something from within that directory to /opt
which only root has access to:
[mitchell.usher@server ~]$ cp .rubies/ruby-2.1.3/ -r /opt
cp: cannot create directory `/opt/ruby-2.1.3': Permission denied
[mitchell.usher@server ~]$ sudo !!
sudo cp .rubies/ruby-2.1.3/ -r /opt
cp: cannot stat `.rubies/ruby-2.1.3/': Permission denied
Obviously I can do the following (and is what I've done for the time being):
[mitchell.usher@server ~]$ cp -r .rubies/ruby-2.1.3/ /tmp/
[mitchell.usher@server ~]$ sudo cp -r /tmp/ruby-2.1.3/ /opt/
Is there any way to do this that wouldn't involve copying it as an intermediary step or changing permissions?
cp -Rp /home/mitchell.usher/.rubies /tmp/templocation; sudo mv /tmp/templocation/ruby-2.1.3 /opt
will this not work ? If no, why ?cp <file> /tmp/tmpfile