The following happened to me:
$ sudo su - superman Sorry, user clarkkent is not allowed to execute '/bin/su - superman' as root in krypton101. However the following worked fine:
$ sudo su superman When is it useful to allow a user to do sudo su but not sudo su -? How is this setting set / unset? I read this page but it didn't help.
More details:
- I am not the administrator
- I don't have access to
/etc/sudoers - the distribution is Centos 7