Re: (OT) sudo question

Erm... not really anything to do with Perl is it?

However in the spirit of being helpful :-)

The 'su' command changes user credentials to those of the root user or to the user specified (in your case 'tuser') and then initiates a new session - you basically become the specified user and can then execute commands as them.

The 'sudo' command allows you to execute commands as another user - this is not the same as above. In order to execute the sudo command your user needs to be defined in the sudoers file (typically stored at /etc/sudoers) - the error messae above is telling you that suser is not defined in this file and so you can't use sudo...

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Re^2: (OT) sudo question by yelekeri (Novice) on Jul 10, 2007 at 19:31 UTC
Thank you very much guys, I think I know the problem here. I was under the impression that su and sudo are same thing which apprarently is not.	[reply]
Re^3: (OT) sudo question by blazar (Canon) on Jul 11, 2007 at 07:45 UTC
Thank you very much guys, I think I know the problem here. I was under the impression that su and sudo are same thing which apprarently is not. They can have quite similar functionality if you sudo a shell. But then that's not the intended best use of the tool: which is rather, in fact, to execute single "simple" commands as another/super user.	[reply]