On 1/4/07, Jacques B. <jjrboucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Hi, Thanks a lot for your quick responses. After executing su - user2 -c script . I am asked for password for user2. Is there any way through we can we specify password too with this command. - Rajiv
