Question about using sudo su
 

Hi,

I have a need to run a script as another user, but the current process takes three commands to do.

sudo su - user
cd directory/
./script.sh

The account is set up such that doing the 'sudo su - user' requires no password.

I am trying to get this into a single command or shell script which I can run to accomplish the same thing. I tried using the -c flag of su, however I am required to enter a password with this flag. I can't enter a password, since I haven't been given a password.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Beau

Disregard this.

Can you not put
into e.g. runme.sh, modify sudoers to allow you to run
runme.sh w/o a password and then do sudo runme.sh?



Cheers,
Tink

sudo su is superfluous. Use either sudo or su, you don't need both together.

If you want your script run as a different user, use any of these:

sudo -u user directory/myscript.sh
sudo -u user sh -c 'cd directory; ./myscript.sh'

Thanks for the suggestion Tink, I tried this too. I think I am going to have to get the server admin to change the sudoers file, as you suggested in order to accomplish this.

Thanks again,
Beau

The su program does not use sudoers; only sudo users sudoers.