Re: shell script how to switch users?

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On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 06:58:53PM +0530, Rajiv Jaisankar 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.

First off, please turn off HTML email. Thank you.

To answer your question, create a second script for user2 to
executed. User1 can call it with something like:

su - user2 -c "/full/path/to/user2/script"

run "info su" for more information.

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