The following is being executed from an account with sudo privileges:
I have a user tomcat created with the following command
sudo useradd -g tomcat -d /usr/local/tomcat -m -s /bin/false tomcat I also have a user test created with the following command
sudo adduser test I have a folder temp and perms 777 are set on this folder
chmod 777 temp Following are my observations:
## This works and I can see temp/a.txt being created sudo -u tomcat touch temp/a.txt ## Does not work. sudo su -c "touch temp/b.txt" tomcat ## works sudo -u test touch temp/c.txt ## works sudo su -c "touch temp/d.txt" test So my question is what exactly is wrong with tomcat user?
1 Answer
The tomcat's shell is /bin/false, you can run with su - as
sudo su -s /bin/bash -c "touch temp/b.txt" tomcat 
