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Problems with Alias, /bin/sh and sudo
'exec /bin/sh' breaks alias

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I have an application that requires su to root in order to run some commands. Unfortunately, my corporate policy only allows sudo so I created an alias in .profile as "alias su="su myaccount". My external application logs in with the first account no problem, it then runs 'exec /bin/sh' and then tries to su with the myaccount password but it comes back with 'incorrect password'. If I use an ssh account, login with my first account and then su with myaccount password it works fine. It looks like the 'exec /bin/sh' does not take the alias. /bin/sh points to bash. I have the alias in .bashrc, .profile, .shrc and .bash_profile but none of this works.

any ideas on how to get the alias to work with the /bin/sh shell?

Thanks

Stu
 
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