On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 06:20:30PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> The Doctor What <docwhat@gerf.org> writes:
>
> > but not if I try to sudo to a non-root id (this is as root, note the #):
> > bash-2.04# sudo -u man bash
> > sudo: unable to exec /bin/bash: Permission denied
>
> This doesn't affect your main question, but you are using the
> wrong syntax for sudo. The -u option takes a username/uid argument.
> Your command is telling sudo to run bash as user man, who doesn't
> exist. sudo is normally run by a user (not root) who is listed in the
> file /etc/sudoers.
debian has man as uid number 6.
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