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Re: Bug#739657: gnuhealth-server: fails to install: gnuhealth-server.postinst: sudo: not found



On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 08:38:56AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:

> > Extract from the manpages:
> > sudo:
> > sudo, sudoedit - execute a command as another user
> 
> I'd call this a bit confusing since sudo is the command to do something
> as superuser.

Not really. It just so happens that the *default*
target usually is root.

Look at "-u username".

Karsten
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