[sudo-users] sudo -u #uid on Kubuntu Feisty

R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar chandra at ee.uwa.edu.au
Mon Aug 6 09:33:31 EDT 2007


Wesley Schwengle wrote:

> 15:17 pts/2 1 wesleys at eniac:/home/wesleys$ sudo -u \#1000 find . -name 
> \*.tgz
> ./Desktop/logger.tgz

Thank you for pointing out that the # is indeed necessary but needs to be 
escaped by a \ to give \#. That solved the problem and also explained why I was 
getting the help text with a plain # :-)

Chandra
06 Aug 07



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