Can non-admins sudo as an admin?

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Last Tested: May 29, 2019

No. Non-admins can be granted the sudo permission but they will not be able to sudo as a user who has the administrator role.

These non-admin users will simply not see an option to sudo in the users panel for admin roles.

From the docs:

Users can sudo (in other words, act as and temporarily inherit the permissions of) another user by clicking the Sudo button on the Users page.> > The sudo permission does not allow a non-admin to sudo as an admin, but a non-admin could potentially escalate their privileges by using sudo, so exercise caution.