03-28-2010
From the sudoers FAQ at
FAQ and Troubleshooting Tips
Quote:
Q) When I run sudo it says I am not allowed 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.
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