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I want to let a standard user change the system date.

So I created a named pipe. The standard user write a date to the named pipe and a root process listens to it and sets the date accordingly:

(user)

echo 122515502010 > /tmp/mypipe

(root)

date -s < /tmp/mypipe

Unfortunately this doesn't work. Where am I wrong?

I'm doing this from an embedded Linux (busybox) with bash.

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Got it!

(root)

read line < mypipe
date -s $line

Thank you everybody! ;)

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As a shortcut, note that read will automatically populate $REPLY (unless you override the return variable name, as done in your example) – danlefree Dec 29 '10 at 1:18
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Why not give the user access to date via sudo ?

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busybox doesn't support sudo (at least the version I'm using). – michelemarcon Dec 28 '10 at 16:03
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