On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Colm Buckley wrote: > 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.
Yes, there are files in the home directory for ggs. The shell is /usr/bin/ksh. -- Matt It's not what I know that counts. It's what I can remember in time to use. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
