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sdot257
Asked: 2010-02-25 14:04:26 +0800 CST

Allow user to only sudo into particular account

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Don't ask why I'm doing it this way but I have to.

Say I have a user name "bob" and he needs to run a program as "monitor." I want to allow "bob" to sudo into the monitor account and run the process. Obviously I could just give "bob" sudo access to run the app but I'm told it has to run as "monitor." Anyways, how can this be done?

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  1. Best Answer

    Yup, set your sudoers entry like this:

    bob          ALL        = monitor        PASSWD:  COMMAND

    Bob can then run the COMMAND under sudo and it will run as monitor (you can of course use NOPASSWD: if you want to force a password check).

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