"su" to a non-superuser account

From: BB (none_at_none.com)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 01:40:18 -0500

Hello All,

I am wondering if the following scenario can be achieved or not.

I am trying to write a script that will su from user1 to user2. I know if I
do su from root to user1 I don't require any password. However, is their a
way to achieve this if user1 and user2 are non-superusers?

Basically, I want to give the DBA (user1) the ability to kill any process
that may have been run by user2 via a script but not sure how to handle the
password prompt.

Also, would it help if user2 was part of "adm" group?

I have looked at sudo but would like to stay way from open source if I can.

Any advice or assistance is much appreciated.

Thank You.

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