shell scripting that uses sudo su - team and perform rest command under this sudo access only

Question

#!/bin/bash
sudo su - team  //// this will change user to team
<somecommnand>

here i have some command like sqlplus that run under this privilege only .

but ,this script first asked for password then i give password but it not run rest of command like .

How to write script that use sudo su and run all command in script below it.

Answer 1

You could try having all of the commands on the same line and seperate them with ';'.

eg. 'sudo su; somecommand; another command'

Could also run that script as the intended user.

Answer 2

You have several options.

1. You can just move the sudo command outside of your script, and have people call it like this:

   sudo -u team /path/to/your/script
   

2. You can put the sudo command in one script and the actual commands you want to run with elevated privileges in another script. That is, people run your_script, which looks like:

   #!/bin/sh
   sudo -u team /path/to/your_script.real
   

   And your_script.real contains the commands that you want to run with elevated privileges.

3. If you really want everything in the same script and you don't mind being a little too clever, you can have the script check re-execute itself using sudo like this:

   #!/bin/sh
   
   TEAM_UID=500 # replace with correct uid
   
   if [ "$UID" != $TEAM_UID ]; then
       exec sudo -u team $0
   fi
   

4. And you can also feed commands to a shell from stdin, like this:

   #!/bin/sh
   sudo su - team <<'EOF'
   echo my uid is $UID
   EOF