[clue] impersonation

[Quentin Hartman]

use controls in the sudoers file to limit the commands the users can run.


On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 2:20 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>wrote:

> That'll probably be the way I end up doing it, but what if I wanted to
> give my user the ability to get a full, interactive login shell with the
> profile and rc's of the user they impersonate?
>
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Jim Ockers
> Date:04/21/2014 1:59 PM (GMT-07:00)
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> Subject: Re: [clue] impersonation
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> Hi David,
>
> Try: sudo -u otheruser command
>
>
> Jim
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> -----Original message-----
> *From:* David L. Willson <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU>
> *Sent:* Monday 21st April 2014 12:58
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> *Subject:* [clue] impersonation
>
> How do you let one non-privileged user impersonate (become) another
> non-privileged user?
>
> When *I* need to impersonate a user, I run: sudo su - some_user, but I
> don't want the regular users doing that. Or, do I?
>
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