Bash script to switch the user

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Gopu

I am having a cent-OS server with 5 accounts: developer, user1 ,user2 ,user3 and user4. All the user home directories are under /home like /home/developer, /home/user1, /home/user2, /home/user3 and /home/user4. I want to create a 4 scripts: user1.sh, user2.sh, user3.sh and user4.sh inside the /home/developer folder. When the user developer run the script user1.sh, he switches to the user1 and cd to the home directory of user1 (/home/user1) and so on for the remaining scripts. The idea behind is to keep the developer from the root access and allow switch to other user's home directory by simple executing a command with that user's name. Is it possible?

Bruce

I suppose you're looking at su - otherUser

Of course, you'll have to provide the password of the other user.

I suppose that something like sudo su - otherUser could work but I haven't tried

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