[sudo-users] Noob sees "boulder" in man sudoers Runas spec
Shawn McMahon
syberghost at gmail.com
Fri Aug 4 14:18:27 MDT 2017
The basic structure of a user specification is “who where = (as_whom)
what”. <- from a few lines up in the manpage
"boulder" is the "where". It's a hostname.
On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Roger Price <roger at rogerprice.org> wrote:
> Hi, please excuse an obvious noob question. I am reading man sudoers,
> and in the Runas_Spec section I see
>
> dgb boulder = (operator) /bin/ls, /bin/kill, /usr/bin/lprm
> The user dgb may run /bin/ls, /bin/kill, and /usr/bin/lprm—but only as
> operator. E.g., $ sudo -u operator /bin/ls
>
> What is the reference to "boulder"? It's not mentioned anywhere else in
> the man page. Is "boulder" the human name of user dgb?
>
> Roger
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