Wednesday, August 30, 2006
changing to a non root user
when you are logged on as a normal user and you want to change to a different user you need to execute the following command.
you first log in to the linux box as user1
than at command prompt type the following command
user1@/>sudo bash
password :
now at the prompt type the following
root@>su user2
user2@> --- now u are user 2
you first log in to the linux box as user1
than at command prompt type the following command
user1@/>sudo bash
password :
now at the prompt type the following
root@>su user2
user2@> --- now u are user 2