[X-Unix] Sudo as Another User

[Cloyce D. Spradling]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:18:21AM -0500, Alex wrote:

: What am I doing wrong? Am I misreading man sudo?

Yep. :)  Normally sudo runs whatever command as root.  The -u option lets
you change that.  So if I (admin user) want to run a command as someone
else (like gretchen), I can just do something like

  sudo -u gretchen rm -rf /Users/gretchen

...and the contents of gretchen's home directory will go away, except for files
in directories for which she doesn't have write permission.  But there aren't
likely to be too many of those in her home directory, eh? :)

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Cloyce