Re^6: OpenSSH and multiple users

FreeBSD "su" interprets the "-c" option as "class".

Explicitly invoking sh should do the trick: su admin sh -c 'show status'

Reading the fine manual suggests that the problem of "-c" could also be the order of arguments: su -c 'show status' admin has "-c" in front of the login parameter. Moving "-c" after the login parameter, as shown in the third example, should work: su admin -c 'show status'.

Please note: everything posted here is untested, I currently have no FreeBSD machine to test.

Alexander

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Re^7: OpenSSH and multiple users by judgemstr (Novice) on Jan 07, 2016 at 18:25 UTC
Ok, so the `su - admin -c 'show status'`gives me the shell under admin which I need but doesnt run the show status command. Show status is a command that only exists in the userland which I think wont work here as the command it is passing thinks it on the root userland. I think our settings for these servers is too locked down to get in with what I am trying to do.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^8: OpenSSH and multiple users by salva (Canon) on Jan 07, 2016 at 18:53 UTC
You can always use Expect to talk to the subshell started by `su - admin`. See How to use Expect with Net::OpenSSH.	[reply] [d/l]