On 1/4/07, Rajiv Jaisankar <rajiv.jaisankar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi All, i am not sure if this is the right mailing list for asking this question. I would appreciate any help on this. I want to switch users using a shell script, i.e. Say i am logged in as user1. I would like to say su - user2 in my script. I would be performing some operations as user "user2" as part of the script after logging in as this user. Finally i will be exiting back to user1 shell. How will i login as user2 through shell script? How will i execute scripts as user2 after logging in from shell script? Even if i am able to login as user2 any commands after "su - user2" are not executed as user2. They are executed only as user1 when i exit the user2 shell. -- Regards, Rajiv -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Use the -c option with su, and call a new script to run as that user. I tried the following: test.sh script: #!/bin/bash echo "before su" su root -c ./rootscript.sh echo "after su" whoami rootscript.sh (located in the same directory hence why called by ./rootscript) #!/bin/bash echo "now in sub shell" whoami echo "exiting sub shell" It behaved exactly as you'd like. Within the second script, I was root running the commands. Jacques B.
