Re: Need a tutorial

[Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 06:11:18PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > sudo -u test bash
> 
> Does not work for me (at least not out of the box):
> 
>   $ sudo -u test_user bash
>   [sudo] password for thomas: 
>   Sorry, user thomas is not allowed to execute '/bin/bash' as test_user on [...]
>   $

Well, that's not a fair test.  The previous poster was running adduser,
so he already had superuser privileges, either through sudo or su or
direct root console/ssh login.  From whichever shell he was using to
run adduser, he should also be able to run sudo -u test bash.