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Can't su to user other than root on CentOS
I'm able to SSH to my server (CentOS 5.9) using an admin account with sudo privileges:
$ ssh admin@myserver
Last login: Wed Feb 27 19:23:11 2013 from [IP ADDRESS]
[admin@myserver ~]$
Then I can su ...
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centos: su silently fails
On a CentOS server where I'm logged via SSH as root, I do:
su otherusername
where 'otherusername' is the user name of another user, which exists.
It does nothing. After that, I'm still root. whoami ...
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run script as another user from a root script with no tty stdin
Using CentOs, I want to run a script as user 'training' as a system service. I use daemontools to monitor the process, which needs a launcher script that is run as root and has no tty standard in.
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