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Nixie

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Registered: 2008-09-24

Posts: 51

How do I become user from root?

If I log-in as a user I know how to open an app as root by using sudo and about using su.

But if I am logged in as root and wish to open firefox as a particular user, and not as root, how do I do that? (while otherwise remaining logged in as root)

Last edited by Nixie (2009-07-24 16:17:03)

Arm-the-Homeless

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 273

Re: How do I become user from root?

"su [username]" - Switches user of shell to user
"sudo -u [username] [app]" - Runs app as user

Last edited by Arm-the-Homeless (2009-07-24 16:18:36)

Nixie

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Registered: 2008-09-24

Posts: 51

Re: How do I become user from root?

Thanks Arm-theHomeless.

Much appreciated

Acecero

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Registered: 2008-06-21

Posts: 1,373

Re: How do I become user from root?

You may also want to do:

su - [username]

while as root if you want to obtain their profiles as well.

djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 1,439

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Re: How do I become user from root?

Yeah, because of this, we use sudo su - in a livecd first of all

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