On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 04:13:27PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: > Hi, > > Here's my script: > > #!/bin/sh > > su -m -c "echo User: $(whoami)" user1
isn't this $(whoami) being executed in the original /bin/sh to executre
it under the su wouldn't you need something like
\$(whoami)
> sleep1
> user=$(whoami)
> echo "User: $user"
>
> I expect that when I run this as root, it changes to user1, executes
> the
> command specified and outputs to STDOUT "User: user1", and then executes the
> second command and outputs "User: root". That's not what's happening. What
> happens
> is that the first echo looks like "User: " and the second looks like "User:
> root".
> What am I doing wrong? Why doesn't whoami output anything after I su to
> user1? Thanks.
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