Bash script as root problem

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 17 March 2013 09:06:32 Nils Kassube did opine:

> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday 17 March 2013 07:47:49 Colin Law did opine:
> > > On 17 March 2013 00:19, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 16 March 2013 20:18:40 Bill K. Dengler did opine:
> > > >> su -c "command_7" $USER
> > > > 
> > > > Wrong syntax Bill, its
> > > > su user -c "command_7"
> > > 
> > > man su says
> > > su [options] [username]
> > 
> > Go ahead.  Try it Colin, I'll wait. ;)
> > 
> > BTDT, the man page is incomplete and has been so for nearly 15 years.
> 
> I'm not Colin, but this is what I get:
> 
> # echo $USER
> root
> # su nils -c 'echo $USER'
> nils
> # su -c 'echo $USER' nils
> nils
> 
> > Now, if we could just get someone to actually fix the %@$#&@( man page
> > so we don't have this argument everytime someone wants run su, not to
> > get root, but to get another user from root.  There is a difference.
> 
> Hmm, if you have this argument for 15 years I would expect that someone
> told you already that both versions work equally well. :)
> 
> 
> Nils

Humm, I'll be dipped, it works here too.  When I first started using 
amanda, a good 13 years ago, it did not so I was forced to play 10,000 
monkeys and invent a syntax that did work.  Maybe they fixed su?  Probably 
easier than fixing the man page I guess.  Sigh...  I'll get me coat.

Cheers, Gene
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