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Is it possible to change user within shell script?
It’s not possible to change user within a shell script. Workarounds using sudo described in other answers are probably your best bet. If you’re mad enough to run perl scripts as root, you can do this with the $< $ ( $> $) variables which hold real/effective uid/gid, e.g.:
Why is my PowerShell script not running at all?
“Log on as batch file” isn’t compatible with the version of windows I’m on and so I don’t think that has anything to do with it. Again, runs manually as expected, but the task won’t run at all, on two different admin accounts privileges. If anyone has a clue on what might be stopping it, I’d be very grateful.
How to run bash as its own script?
Much simpler: use sudo to run a shell and use a heredoc to feed it commands. You need to execute all the different-user commands as their own script. If it’s just one, or a few commands, then inline should work. If it’s lots of commands then it’s probably best to move them to their own file.
Can you run a command as a user?
The sudoers policy allows uids that are not in the password database as long as the targetpw option is not set. Other security policies may not support this. With su user -c “sh /path/command.sh” you can run a command as user.
How to execute the rest of the bash script as that user?
Use a script like the following to execute the rest or part of the script under another user: EDIT: As Douglas pointed out, you can not use cd in sudo since it is not an external command. You have to run the commands in a subshell to make the cd work.
What’s the difference between Su and root script?
You can put the part of the script that should be executed as root into a separate script, and execute that with su. (Or some use variation of that trick.) As far as the shell is concerned, su is a command like any other. When you run su with no argument, it prompt for the root password, then invokes an interactive shell, as usual.
Is there a way to run Su as root?
There is an easy way to do it without a second script. Just put this at the start of your file: Then it will automatically run itself as root.