I’ve recently set up my server so that my suPHP ‘virtual’ users can’t be logged into by using this article
My issue now is that before when I ran a
rake
command for my Ruby on Rails application running on the server, I usedsu
to go intowww-data
and execute the command from there – obviously I can’t do that anymore because of the nologin.So as a root user, how can I execute commands as other user’s, even if they are nologin?
Answer
One way is to launch a shell for that user (explicitly specifying the shell):
sudo -u www-data bash
This will launch a (bash) shell as the specified user. You can then execute your command(s) and logout (to return to your previous shell)
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