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vajravelu
vajravelu

Reputation: 93

sudo -l for a different as root

Hi all am trying list all the sudo command a user has access to as a root , obviously we can see that in sudoers file but if there are a lot of user/command aliases it becomes difficult

i am trying to do sudo -l for a different user as root

i have tried using -u option

sudo -u testuser -l

throws command usage message

sudo -u testuser sudo -l

prompts for testuser's password (i dont want password prompt as i am doing as root) 

su - testuser -c 'sudo -l'

gives me below error

sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified

please let me know how to go about this

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6584

Answers (1)

Marc B
Marc B

Reputation: 360632

As per man sudo:

 -U user, --other-user=user
             Used in conjunction with the -l option to list the privileges
             for user instead of for the invoking user.  The security pol-
             icy may restrict listing other users' privileges.  The
             sudoers policy only allows root or a user with the ALL privi-
             lege on the current host to use this option.

you're using -u, which is something completely different:

 -u user, --user=user
             Run the command as a user other than the default target user
             (usually root ). The user may be either a user name or a
             numeric user ID (UID) prefixed with the '#' character etc...

Upvotes: 1

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