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I'm new to Unix and I'm looking for some assistance. We have 20 different accounts we must login to every day. Logging in has become quite the chore and most nights, we have to log out. I'm looking for a way to simply copy and paste the commands into each window to make things easier.
I have been using the following to log in every time: different 20 different accounts across three servers.

Code:

$ su - account
Password
$cd /home/i5/i5.4/release/account
$. ./profile.ksh
whoami: not found
$. ./profile.ksh
$bash
$PS1='Account1:'
Account1:

I am trying to combine these all on one line. That way I just copy and paste the entire line to save time. When I do however, my prompt does not change.

Code:

$cd /home/i5/i5.4/release/account; . ./profile.ksh; . ./profile.ksh; bash; PS1='Account1:'
bash$

I'm not even certain the second ././profile ran, although I'm pretty sure it did. What did not run though is the change of my prompt. Would someone help so I can only copy and paste one line to have all of the commands run? If there is an easier way to automate this, please let me know.

Have you tried with "&&"?

Code:

cd /home/i5/i5.4/release/account && . ./profile.ksh && . ./profile.ksh && bash && PS1=’Account1:’

To save to some work in the future you should look into using screen with ssh for these multiple logins.

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It's going to be difficult to automate su. It insists on interactive authentication, and doesn't run commands listed after it since those are ones your current shell expects to do. It can be told to run things given on the commandline, but then it doesn't prompt you for more commands when it's done!

You could configure sudo instead, to allow you and only you(or perhaps some group of users, etc, etc.) to run a shell under the 'account' user without a password and then, modify account's ~/.profile or ~/.kshrc to run . /home/i5/i5.4/release/account/profile.ksh automatically on login, as well as set the prompt and change directory to where you want. So you go from sudo to doing what you want in one step, or su - account and one password to being setup as you want.