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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers change user in a shell Post 39721 by ortsvorsteher on Thursday 28th of August 2003 04:15:35 PM
Old 08-28-2003
Maybe you can use this:

su - <username> -c

as root.
 

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