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Operating Systems Solaris how to su - from non root acount to non root account
# 8  
Old 05-12-2011
This will help in giving the User X root acess i want him to to login to accoutn AB without password.
# 9  
Old 05-19-2011
i tried this
User_Alias ABC = X,Y


ABC server = NOPASSWD

but it did not work ..
can any one help me on this
# 10  
Old 05-23-2011
rishiraaz,

sudo file entry looks fine...but can you post us the output of sudo -ll after logging via sudo su - AB from user x/y

Which will help us in identifying the exact issue.
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