Bug 561

Summary:	su-like, if not in the sudoers file
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	lightbit8
Component:	Sudo	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	low
Version:	1.8.4
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description lightbit8 2012-06-22 07:28:08 MDT

Ask for target's (-u) password, if user not in the sudoers file.
I think this would be really good, because it would allow to fully replace su.

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2013-09-30 09:38:19 MDT

I think it would be a mistake for sudo to allow arbitrary users to run it by default.  If you want su-like functionality, you just need to use something like the folowing, a commented out version of which is already in the default sudoers file.

Defaults targetpw  # Ask for the password of the target user
ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL  # WARNING: only use this together with 'Defaults targetpw'