Bug 49 – Sudo Runas_Alias not picking up the correct user on commands

Bug 49 - Sudo Runas_Alias not picking up the correct user on commands


Summary:	Sudo Runas_Alias not picking up the correct user on commands

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Sudo
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Sudo
Version:	1.6.3
Hardware:	Sun Solaris 2.x

Importance:	normal normal
Assigned To:	Todd C. Miller

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Reported:	2001-08-29 16:25 MDT by James Vastine
Modified:	2001-12-17 15:02 MST (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description James Vastine 2001-08-29 16:25:52 MDT

Using sudo v1.6.3p7 on Solaris 2.6 Kernel patch 105181-23
NIS installed on this machine.

Trying to get user "username" to execute a command as user "oracle"
below are relevant lines from my sudoers file.

##
# User alias specification

Runas_Alias     DB = oracle

# User privelage specification

username          ALL = (DB) NOPASSWD: ALL

basically I have a script and I want to be able to restart Oracle's listener
as Oracle when it dies,  in testing this I touched a file and it creates it
fine with nopasswd but it leaves the file permissions as root:other.

Any help you could provided would be appreciated,
thanks in advance.

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2001-12-15 11:10:59 MST

How did you run sudo, did you specify the -u flag?  When running a command as a user other than root
you must specify the target user.  E.g. "sudo -u oracle touch foo"

Comment 2 Todd C. Miller 2001-12-17 11:02:59 MST

Turned out to be user error/misunderstanding.