Daniel VanderWal

Daniel VanderWal

A wiki for my studies and projects in Linux, System Administration, and Networking.

Logging In and Switching Users

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su command

switch user command

Sign in as root

su -

Sign in as user

su - clouduser

Must include the dash to inherit $PATH of user

Interactive and login shells

  • .bash_profile: login shell, executed to configure things before the initial command prompt.

  • .bashrc: interactive shell, is the place to put stuff that applies only to bash itself, such as alias and function definitions, shell options, and prompt settings.

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