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"Michael Potter" <pottmi@gmail.com> writes:

> It will not work to just use sudo in front of echo.

The redirection must of course be performed as root.

$ sudo sh -c 'echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/suid_dumpable'

Andreas.

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