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Hey All, I'm doing some delegation via sudo and seem to be blind at the moment. Can someone give me a second eye and tell me what I'm missing here? ...
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    Sincere Sudo Situations

    Hey All,

    I'm doing some delegation via sudo and seem to be blind at the moment.

    Can someone give me a second eye and tell me what I'm missing here?

    I'm trying to allow any user in a specific group to su to a specific user using their environment settings (su - username).

    I have it configured now so that (su username) is permitted without setting up the environment with the following line:

    user1 (ALL)=(ALL) /bin/su user2

    but I can't get any of the following to work:

    user1 (ALL)=(ALL) /bin/su user2, (ALL) /bin/su - user2
    user1 (ALL)=(ALL) /bin/su [-]* user2

    Does anyone know how to get this working?

    Thanks!

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    NEVERMIND.

    Two hours of work wasted because I didn't verify which /etc/sudoers file I was editing.

    FYI,

    user1 (ALL)=(ALL)/bin/su user2, /usr/bin/su - user2 --- works great!

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    Sorry you had to provide your own answer, but thanks for reporting back with the solution.

    Don't hesitate to post new threads with any other questions.
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