sudo su asks for invoking user's password as default sudo behaviour.

With Defaults rootpw it will ask root's password.

1. But is there a way, to make sudo su behave like su? Like it'll ask password of the user mentioned in the parameter?

Like:

sudo su/ sudo su - # ask root's password
sudo su foo/ sudo su - foo # ask foo's password
sudo su bar/ sudo su - bar # ask bar's password

2. Defaults rootpw will ask root's password for all the rules mentioned in sudoers file. Is it possible to make it ask root's password for only sudo su/ sudo su - rule and not other rules? Correct me if I'm wrong here?

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