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Huey
Huey

Reputation: 31

How to run multiple commands while using sudo as another user

I need to run two or more commands as another user in Linux. For example, using "root", I need to sudo to another user and do something like "cd /tmp/; ls -ltr".

If I do: "sudo -i -u john.smith whoami" without the double quotes, it will tell me I am john.smith.

Now I want to expand that do whoami, change directories, and execute an ls command while using "root" to sudo as john.smith.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4558

Answers (2)

ruakh
ruakh

Reputation: 183602

Bash supports a -c flag that lets you specify the command to run as a command-line argument — basically an inline Bash script. That means you can easily combine multiple commands into a single call to bash, which is then easily sudo-ed:

sudo -i -u john.smith bash -c 'whoami ; cd /tmp/ ; ls -ltr'

or

sudo -i -u john.smith \
  bash -c ' whoami
            cd /tmp/
            ls -ltr
          '

(Other shell languages have the same feature.)

Upvotes: 5

Nick
Nick

Reputation: 10559

You can make small shell script file and start it with sudo.

Another thing I often useon Ubuntu is to make "sudo su" - this give me root shell and I proceed from there.

Upvotes: 0

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