How can I switch to the user jenkins in the middle of a ssh script?

ssh sudo sh su
user77115 picture user77115 · Aug 8, 2011 · Viewed 19.6k times · Source

I run

ssh root@myhost "sh -x" < myremotecommands.sh

where myremotecommands.sh contains:

#!/bin/sh
sudo su
apt-get update
sudo su -l -p jenkins
whoami

however the command whoami returns 'root'. I need to be user jenkins to perform some installations.

How can I switch to the user jenkins in the middle of the script ?

Answer

Fernando Vieira picture Fernando Vieira · Mar 11, 2014

You just have to use "su" command with "-s /bin/bash" argument. It´s needed because jenkins user was not supposed to be used interactively, so it doesn´t have the bash defined.

su jenkins -s /bin/bash

After this, the "whoami" command will report you as "jenkins" user.

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