[sudo-users] Granting users the ability to su to another user via sudo

Kevin Shortt kevinshortt at gmail.com
Thu Sep 30 23:00:24 EDT 2010


So are we saying that the example ruleset provides the end user to ability
to run commands equivalent to "sudo su - username" while each command gets
logged to syslog?  (via sudo -i...)



On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:35 AM, John Adams <jxadams at ualr.edu> wrote:

> That's exactly what I'll do. Thank you, Todd!
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Todd C. Miller
> <Todd.Miller at courtesan.com> wrote:
> > In message <0A75C8AF-A002-4226-8451-6F56F5808627 at ualr.edu>
> >        so spake John Adams (jxadams):
> >
> >> My request actually specifies two different users to run as. Can I have
> two
> >> entries in sudoers, like this?
> >>
> >>  %group ALL=(first_user_to_run_shell_as) /bin/bash
> >>  %group ALL=(second_user_to_run_shell_as) /bin/bash
> >>
> >>       Allowing, I assume, command line invocations like:
> >>
> >> sudo -i -u first_user_to_run_shell_as
> >
> > That will work, though you can also use a list of runas users like so:
> >
> > %group ALL=(first_user_to_run_shell_as, second_user_to_run_shell_as)
> /bin/bash
> >
> >  - todd
> >
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