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Old 12-10-2012
Help with switching the users
Hello.
I am using a instance of Centos 5.5, I currently have two users root and zetaris, but when I try to switch the user from root
su zetaris or su - zetaris the next command line shows bash-3.2$ and stops there. Further there is no response from instance.
Please help me with this problem. I have to switch the user for continuing my tasks. I am running the instance on Cloud VM.

I found the list of users
Code:
cat /etc/passwd | grep "/bin/bash" | cut -d: -f1

root
zetaris

Please help.
Last edited by Scott; 12-10-2012 at 02:45 AM.. Reason: Code tags
# 2  
Old 12-10-2012
Yes? And what is wrong with it? doing a su is opening a shell under a new UID...
What are you trying to achieve?
# 3  
Old 12-10-2012
What do you mean by "stops there"? Does it not let you send any more commands to the shell? I'm not sure I understand the issue.
# 4  
Old 12-11-2012
man sudo to run the command as other user.
 
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