Running a shell script on BusyBox based system as another user while still logged in as su

Asked Jan 20 '20 at 04:59

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I have a BusyBox system where I want to run a certain script as a non root user without a password while still in su. Most answers which I found here use sudo. I tried using su - user1 -c "echo '$USER'", for which I'm getting:

No directory, logging in with HOME=/
root

instead of:

user1

Is there a way to make this happen?

edited Jan 23 '20 at 03:00

asked Jan 20 '20 at 04:59

Mathew Thomas

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The `$USER` is expanded before the child shell is run. – KamilCuk Jan 23 '20 at 03:05
@KamilCuk It worked perfectly. – Mathew Thomas Jan 24 '20 at 04:10

Running a shell script on BusyBox based system as another user while still logged in as su

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