Hi I wonder if someone good in sudo can explain how to use

Runas_Alias DB = #1000 (where #1000 should be an user id)
user #1000 is johan on the system.
I have read a lot of sudo and get the basics, but this I don't understand. Especially Howto use this option

Runas_Alias DB = #1000

I have use visudo to edit the file.
Is this done to anything useful?
this is my sudoers file.
sudoers file.
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
#

# Host alias specification
Host_Alias HB =pingvin
# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# Defaults specification

# Runas alias specification
Runas_Alias DB = #1000
# User privilege specification
#root ALL=(ALL) ALL
johan ALL=(ALL) ALL
pernilla HB= (DB) ALL

# Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Same thing without a password
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

# Samples

help would be appreciated

I haven't got a clue about sudo, but I am wondering if that pound sign ( # ) before the 1000 is causing any trouble?
Technically, that would be commenting out the user number, wouldn't it?

SVA

Have you read the sudoers man page? It's explained there.

Actually the problem is solved.
man page sudo
sudo [-HPSb] [-a auth_type] [-c class|-] [-p prompt] sudo [-HPSb] [-a auth_type] [-c class|-] [-p prompt] [-u username|#uid]
{-e file [...] | -i | -s | command}


I interpreted this line [-u username|#uid]
as sudo -u username or sudo #uid, not sudo -u \#uid

So the thing is either the man page is wrong written or I got it wrong from the start howto read man page synopsis!

The man page is correct, albeit somewhat terse; it doesn't mention
that bash will interpret the # as a comment if you don't escape it.

It's not a sudo (or sudo man-page) problem ... ;}

What you got wrong is not to think about the shell you're
using when running those commands.


Cheers,
Tink

Thank you for your explanation.
No actually I did escape shell correct! \#uid
, but what i did not understand with synopsis was sudo -u \#uid (with option -u) so I mean I interpreted [-u username|#uid] as sudo -u username or just sudo \#uid (without -u), and that last option obviously was wrong! But from now on I know!

Yeek those green colors are rotten! lol, before someone gets bent out of shape from going cross-eyed from them, kindly maybe use BOLD rather than that icky green color.

Cheers

SVA

The colours *are* nasty, alright. :}

And why do have two user-accounts? And what did you dig
the older one up for this response? :D


Cheers,
Tink

Yes! You may be right about the colour. I will consider using bold next time. But the main reason for this whole discussion was that I wanted to understand how sudo works and at the same moment deeping the understanding generally for howto read / understand the synopsis of man page and hopefully at the same time help somebody else, that is not always so absolut and clear for a newbie. I got to know about Linux august 2005 and learned a great deal, but sure there is still alot to learn.
cheers!

Heh. First used Linux around 98, but there sure still is a lot to learn ;}


Cheers,
Tink

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