How to run script as another user without password?

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user788171 picture user788171 · Aug 2, 2011 · Viewed 276.6k times · Source

I have script.sh that must be run as user2. However, this script can only be run under user1 in my application.

I would like the following command to run:

su user2 -C script.sh

but be able to run without password.

I also want this to be very restrictive, as in user1 can only run script.sh under user2 and nothing else.

I've tried doing this with sudoers file and just got endlessly confused after hours of trying.

If somebody can provide an explicit example of how this can be accomplished (instead of something generic like use sudoers), it would be greatly appreciated.

Answer

Jeronimo Robles picture Jeronimo Robles · Sep 20, 2012

try running:

su -c "Your command right here" -s /bin/sh username

This will run the command as username given that you have permissions to sudo as that user.

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