Re: root-owned script needs to "shell out" to bash as a non-privileged user. How?

[choroba]

in reply to root-owned script needs to "shell out" to bash as a non-privileged user. How?

Instead of su, use sudo:

system '/usr/bin/sudo', '-u', $username, '/bin/bash', '-i';

[mrfirmware]

Ok, color me embarrassed. That worked great. Thank you very much.