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Old 05-06-2011
Question how to su - from non root acount to non root account
HI i am trying to give su access to some users say X Y and Z to a account AB . I am able to give them su access to root with the help of sudoers file but i want to give them password less access to AB account which i am not able to do .
I want to this

when user X fires "su - AB" he is not prompted for password.

please help.
# 2  
Old 05-06-2011
What, exactly, did you put in the sudoers file?
# 3  
Old 05-06-2011
UserX ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
# 4  
Old 05-11-2011
Please , can someone help me in this .
# 5  
Old 05-12-2011
So please post the command you run and the error message you get, if any.
I'm expecting:
Code:
sudo su - AB

Also, what says
Code:
sudo -ll

?
# 6  
Old 05-12-2011
when user X fires this cmd sudo su - AB


it asks for a password ...
# 7  
Old 05-12-2011
UserX ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
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