[H-GEN] temporary user change in bash script

[Snowy Angelique Maslov]

On 9/04/2012 12:46 PM, mick wrote:
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> I need run a script as root but change to a different to execute one step in the middle of the script, the return to being root to finish the script.
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> I've looked through a couple of bash snippet sites ans Advanced Bash Scripting but can't for the life of me see what I need.
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> Can someone please help me
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> mick
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Check out sudo - you can get this to execute whatever you need as that 
user for that one step

Something like 'sudo -u <user> <command>'  will suffice.

Or you can use 'su' as well.   Such as 'su -c <command> <user>'.

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Snowy Angelique Maslov<snowy at snowy.org>