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johnkpaul on March 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Su VS sudo su VS sudo -u -i

No, I'm not sure. I'm using Sudo version 1.7.4p5. sudo su <user> does not prompt for a password. sudo -su <user> and sudo -s -u <user> do prompt for a password.

atombender on March 25, 2012 [–]

Works here. We use it extensively on our boxes to allow access to certain initscripts, among other things.

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