sudo to userb when i log in as usera

spur230 · 04-10-2019, 01:30 PM

At my work, i am only sudo to userb. As I had to do it multiple times in a day , I wanted to automatically sudu to userb by placing in my .profile

sudo su - userb ; cd ~/somedirectory

However, this is not working. I tried placing sudo to .bashrc but that did not work either.

could someone please point out what am i doing wrong?

Thanks

Turbocapitalist · 04-10-2019, 01:32 PM

It would be this:

Code:

sudo -u userb -i

See "man sudo"

rtmistler · 04-10-2019, 01:35 PM

Perhaps try an alias in your profile?

Code:

alias ub=`sudo -u userb; cd ~/somedirectory`

spur230 · 04-10-2019, 02:03 PM

sudo to different user worked. (sudo -u userb -i) but cd ~/somedir did not work.

It looks like change directory is happening for usera not the userb that i am sudoing to .