sudoers newbie help

[javaguy]

I'm writing a script to grab all my digital photos off a flash memory card, and there doesn't seem to be any way to do it without root privileges (even root can't change the ownership/permissions of the stuff on the flash card, only cp it to the drive and change the ownership of the copy).

 

So here's my sudoers entry:

 

javaguy ALL= (root) /bin/cp -R /mnt/flash/* /home/javaguy/*

 

When my script gets to here:

 

sudo /bin/cp /mnt/flash/dcim/100olymp/* $DIRECTORY

 

I get this error:

 

Sorry, user javaguy is not allowed to execute '/bin/cp /mnt/flash/dcim/100olymp/* /home/javaguy/Documents/Photos/2004/February/batch1' as root on dhcp024-209-107-057.woh.rr.com.

 

Now /home/javaguy/Documents/Photos/2004/February/batch1 definitely exists at the point it gets here, and /mnt/flash/dcim/100olymp is the directory containing all the JPGs on my flash card. I have confirmed this. But I can't copy.

 

Any ideas? Thanks!

[ac_dispatcher]

First make sure you are editing the sudoers file correctly.

 

root ALL=(ALL) ALL

 

the syntax of this line is:

 

user machine=(effective user) command

 

 

try-

javaguy ALL=(ALL) /bin/cp

 

or to sudo any command:

 

javaguy ALL=(ALL) ALL