On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 06:11:18PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > sudo -u test bash > > Does not work for me (at least not out of the box): > > $ sudo -u test_user bash > [sudo] password for thomas: > Sorry, user thomas is not allowed to execute '/bin/bash' as test_user on > [...] > $
Well, that's not a fair test. The previous poster was running adduser, so he already had superuser privileges, either through sudo or su or direct root console/ssh login. From whichever shell he was using to run adduser, he should also be able to run sudo -u test bash.
