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Many people believe that adding a runas spec should obviate the need

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for the -u flag.  It does not.
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Todd C. Miller
2001-12-15 02:17:14 +00:00
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@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ A) Sudo removes the following "dangerous" environment variables
TERMINFO TERMINFO
TERMINFO_DIRS TERMINFO_DIRS
TERMPATH TERMPATH
TERMCAP (if it begins with a '/') TERMCAP
ENV ENV
BASH_ENV BASH_ENV
LC_ (if it contains a '/' or '%') LC_ (if it contains a '/' or '%')
@@ -152,5 +152,17 @@ A) Some SVR4-derived OS's include a /usr/bin/cd command for reasons
unfathomable. A "cd" command is totally useless since a child process unfathomable. A "cd" command is totally useless since a child process
cannot affect the current working directory of the parent (your shell). cannot affect the current working directory of the parent (your shell).
Q) When I run sudo it says I am not alllowed to run the command as root
but I don't want to run it as root, I want to run it as another user.
My sudoers file entry looks like:
bob ALL=(oracle) ALL
A) The default user sudo tries to run things as is always root, even if
the invoking user can only run commands as a single, specific user.
This may change in the future but at the present time you have to
work around this using the 'runas_default' option in sudoers.
For example:
Defaults:bob runas_default=oracle
would achieve the desired result ofr the preceding sudoers fragment.
Q) How do you pronounce `sudo'? Q) How do you pronounce `sudo'?
A) soo-doo (for superuser do). A) soo-doo (for superuser do).