runas command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix runas command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

runas: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: runas: command not found

In Ubuntu runas is provided by titantools package.

titantools is:

Titantools provides two of the tools provided by the Titan package which are:

noshell: an alternative way to login’s nologin to add shells to administrative (locked) system users.
runas: a simple generic program that allows administrators to start daemons as non privileged users, and optionally to run in a chrooted environment.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install titantools

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install titantools.

sudo apt -y install titantools

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install titantools

In this tutorial we learn how to fix runas command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.