exec command in script from another user

[Chartier Jerome]

Hi all,

In a shell script, I would like to launch a command under another user account (sudo).
For example, in a root cron table, launch a script which calls as well oracle and root scripts .

Thanks in advance for your help

Cheers

J??r??me

[Mark Greene_1 · Accepted solution]

You can use this :

su - [user] -c "commands"

to launch commands from a script or cron to be run as a different user. You can add logging to capture errors from the su like this:

su - [user] -c "commands" >logfile 2>&1

and like this to log the commands:

su - [user] -c "commands >cmd_logfile 2>&1"

or like this for both:

su - [user] -c "commands >cmd_logfile 2>&1" > logfile >2&1

mark

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Jerome,

su is the way to go.

su - user_id -c "command string with or without options"

man su for more information.

Hai