I researched this question and all answers suggest visudo to add: Defaults:user !requiretty It does not work! I have two Linux boxes (RedHat). I have a Java class which uses ProcessBuilder/Process to execute commands. The class runs under a system account. On both boxes, I run and provide the password for oth…
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Can I use ssh to login another host and automatically “su” to another user? [closed]
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permission denied when using su to execute a node program
here is my node program it is in /home/test/ and the test directory ‘s privilege is rwxrwxrwx. when i run node test.js with the tomcat account, the data.txt could be created. but when i run a service to execute su tomcat -c ‘node /home/test/test.js’, the data.txt could not be created and the…
How do you find the original user through multiple sudo and su commands?
When running a script via sudo or su I want to get the original user. This should happen regardless of multiple sudo or su runs inside of each other and specifically sudo su -. Answer Results: Use who am i | awk ‘{print $1}’ OR logname as no other methods are guaranteed. Logged in as self: Normal …