I have received help from another user concerning Oracle Shell Scripting (thank you BW-userx) and I'm trying to log in as a different user other than what I'm currently logged in as.
Example: I'm logged in as user 'oracle' when the script first starts, but right in the beginning of the script I need to be logged in as 'eric'. from what I read, I tried using CONNECT (domain/username and username/domain) with no success. I'm assuming that is the syntax.

Basically I'm asking how can I log in as a different user using comman d line only, if it's even possible?

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@lazydog.......I get the response "could not open session". I tried "sudo -u username" with no success. If I have to, and if it is available I am willing to pass my username and password in the script.

What does the script look like, and how are you running it?

What do you mean by logging in as a user? Do you mean logging in at the terminal as 'user' and running a command as another user? Or do you mean using ssh to login and run a script as another user?

Here is my script:

#!/bin/bash
runuser -l eric -c 'command'
TODAY=$(date +%Y%m%d)
DIR0=//export/home/eric/reports
DIR2=//export/home/eric/reports/team/audits

mkdir -p "${DIR2}"/"${TODAY}"
find "${DIR0}" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "dailyreport.xlsx" -mtime +1 -exec mv -t "${DIR2}"/"${TODAY}"/ "{}" \+


This script will only run successfully if I am immediately logged off 'oracle' and logged in as 'eric' before running the rest of the script.

Will run only 'command' as the user 'eric', it does not affect the rest of the script.

Are you saying you want to run the rest of the script as eric when the script is run as well?

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@szboardstretcher....yes

If so, remove the runuser line out of the script, and actually run the whole script with runuser. Ie:

Is that acceptable?

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Before the script is ran, Im logged in as a sudo user 'oracle'. I need to log off as 'oracle' right in the beginning of the script before the rest of the script is ran.

@szboardstretcher...it depends. can I put your suggestion in the 2nd line of a script after the shebang ?

Show me what you are thinking of scripting and Ill let you know.

You are going to run a script AS oracle, that uses runuser to run commands? Or to run another script?

This is not that complicated, Im just trying to be sure of your exact intent.

Is this your steps?

• Log in at the console as 'oracle'
• Run a script called 'myscript.sh' as the user 'eric'

@szboardstretcher.........yes those steps are correct. I just tried your previous suggestion. Running the script now keeping my fingers crossed

In my mind then you would create a script as the user 'oracle' called 'myscript.sh' or whatever with this in it
Then run it as 'oracle' with this commmand
There might be permission related things we might have to walk through. But this should get you working, or at least closer to working.

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Here is the script I tried:

#!/bin/bash
runuser -l exg85 -c '/export/home/exg85/reports/RUNUSEREXG85.sh

Ran from command prompt, got this error:

./RUNUSEREXG85.sh: line 2: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
./RUNUSEREXG85.sh: line 3: syntax error: unexpected end of file

UGH!!!!!!

@szboardstrectcher......no. the script initially would be ran under 'oracle', but immediately in the script I need to switch to the user 'exg85'.

I just reread your last entry, yes you are right