23 Mar
2013
23 Mar
'13
7:48 a.m.
On Sat, 2013-03-23 at 06:49 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 23:51 +0100, Jeremy Jongepier
wrote:
Hm?
My idea isn't good.
[root@archlinux rocketmouse]# /usr/bin/sudo -u rocketmouse -s echo ":)"
:)
[root@archlinux rocketmouse]# echo $?
0
[root@archlinux rocketmouse]# id -u
0
Perhaps you should test it by adding an additional sudo
[root@archlinux rocketmouse]# /usr/bin/sudo -u rocketmouse -s id -u
1000
just to test if it really does work as expected.
Is this maybe related to using sudo?
I noticed that when checking the user by $USER or $EUID, the result
often is wrong, but the output of $(id -u) until now always was correct,
so directly after the sudo I would add
echo $? > id.log
id -u >> id.log
to the script. The $? to check if sudo is working and id -u to check if
it really does switch the user, assumed the output of $? should be 0.