On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Matt Lawrence <m...@technoronin.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Phil Pennock wrote: > > > On 2011-03-02 at 11:54 -0600, Matt Lawrence wrote: > >> Is there some sort of special handling for su? Is there a good > >> workaround? They really want to do "su - <user>" so that the > environment > >> is being set correctly. > > > > sudo -u ggs -i > > sudo -u ggs -i <cmd> > > > > The -i option, "simulate initial login", may prove useful. > > Oddly enough, I don't get any output or errors when I do "sudo -u ggs -i > ls". Looks like I need a different solution. > Are there any files in ggs's home directory? And what is ggs's login shell set to? If the login shell isn't a shell which can execute commands as normal, the above will fail, as it's passed to the login shell of the ggs user. Colm -- Colm Buckley / c...@tuatha.org / +353 87 2469146
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