[ALUG] Re: How to become another user, without password, but keep environment?

Alan Pope wrote:

On 16/02/06, Chris Green <chris@areti.co.uk> wrote:

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I can thing of various nasty scripting ways of doing it but su is so close to what I want it seems a pity to re-invent an almost invented wheel.

can't you just do

$ sudo su - otheruser

or $ sudo -s -u otheruser and with correctly setup sudoers file you can do this without a password. JD