How to 'su' to another user?

Question

How to 'su' to another user?

JoePython1 opened this issue 13 years ago · 2 comments

Is it possible to "su - root" , type password and then execute commands?
It will be nice if this is part of the documentation.

Answer 1 · 2012-03-02T03:02:48.000Z

Mm, not sure if possible or not. Normally I would set the target up for password-less sudo, which is then trivial to use. Is that a valid workaround?

Answer 2 · 2012-03-03T16:25:58.000Z

I understand that I can getaway with sudo for most tasks. But there some tasks/programs which do not allow the use of sudo and need a tty and interaction. I was wondering whether I can use clj-ssh for those purposes.
Thank you for the response.