Switching user inside a shell script doesn't seem to work
Linux version : Oracle Linux 6.4
Shell : Bash
The following script will be run as root. During the execution, it should switch to oracle user and execute few commands.
After googling and searching within unix.com , I came up with the following syntax
## Enclosing all commands in double quotes with the following syntax
## Using single quote like below didn't work for me
So, I created the following simple script called test.sh and executed it.
But it seems that the switch user using su didn't work properly.
/tmp/who.txt file shows root. It should show orace user if su worked properly.
/tmp/MYVAR2.txt is empty . It should show Duffy
/tmp/Instancename.txt is empty. It should show JUMBO1
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