Posts tagged su

BASH> Run command from root as another user

Oct26
2010 Written by Scott Rowley

Every once in a awhile you may find you need to run a command as a different user than yourself. In order to do so you will first need to be root, then perform the following: 

su <username> -c '<command1>; <command2>;'
Posted in BASH - Tagged BASH, command, root, user

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