UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I'm using personal user to enter telnet session then manually connecting to a generic user using the following :

sudo -H -u $1 ksh -c ". ~$1/.profile && cd ~$1 && ksh" ;

where $1 is the generic user.

It works but in the ".profile" execution , the alias are not working

when the generic connection is ok , i'm forced to type ". .profile" to read it again , then the alias are ok.

I don't understand why all the ".profile" is ok but the alias no !

Somebody can help ?

regards
Christian

.profile is been read by login program/process. sudo is not ment for that. man sudo
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sudo - execute a command as another user
So its merely a command execution shell

OK i understand that but the sudo i ran is supposed (and he does) to read the ".profile" but the alias contained in this ".profile" are not executed as alias command when the others lines are red (PATH...)

Christian

You are not able to differerentiate b/w alias and environment variables here ;-)

So can i change the line :
"sudo -H -u $1 ksh -c ". ~$1/.profile && cd ~$1 && ksh" ;"

to have an alias file red at the same time without to do it manually after the prompt ?

Christian

If I were you then I'd have gone with your approach only

I don't understand what you're trying to say !

Christian