On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 06:20:30PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > The Doctor What <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
