[sudo-users] Noob sees "boulder" in man sudoers Runas spec
Todd C. Miller
Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Fri Aug 4 14:53:33 MDT 2017
On Fri, 04 Aug 2017 21:23:48 +0200, Roger Price 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?
boulder is a host name, I'll attempt to clarify that in the manual.
- todd
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