change user in a shell

scottl · #1 (**permalink**) 08-28-2003

Hi,

is it possible to chnage the user in a shell script?

i would like to create a script with should make some actions on the host which needs root permissions.

i want do give the user which should start the script the root permissions.
so is it possible to make a command in the script whch change the user to something else (with root permissions) and after the script the user has the same permissions as before (normal permissions no root ..)

many thx

scott

oombera · #2 (**permalink**) 08-28-2003

Here's a couple old posts:

Changing Users
unix scripts

They both suggest the program sudo, so that may be a place to start looking...

ortsvorsteher · #3 (**permalink**) 08-28-2003

Maybe you can use this:

su - <username> -c

as root.

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