After further testing, I can conclude that this is a bit more subtle than was previously thought. I can only confirm that this behavior occurs when I do something like this:
(assume otheruser is not in group admin) ------------------------------------- $ whoami me $ sudo su Password: # sudo otheruser $ sudo yes Password: $ echo "nothing happened!" nothing happened! ------------------------------------- You get the idea. sudo works normally when I initially log in as otheruser. Clearing the relevant environment variables doesn't seem to have an effect. -Forest -- sudo (edgy) silently fails when user is not a member of admin https://launchpad.net/bugs/81140 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
