Hi Salva,

Thanks for your response.

Unfortunately when I try your code I get:

sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo

When I add:

tty => 1,

I get my original error back again:

muxserver_accept_control: tcgetattr: Invalid argument tcgetattr: Invalid argument

If I ssh to the remote server and manually issue some 'sudo su' commands I get output like the below:

loguser@enfcdb01 ~$ sudo su imail We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things: #1) Respect the privacy of others. #2) Think before you type. #3) With great power comes great responsibility. sudo password for loguser: imail@enfcdb01 loguser$

So this works and I'm now able to operate as the imail user.

Using the '-c' option to su I get:

loguser@enfcdb01 ~$ sudo su -c "ls" imail ls: cannot open directory .: Permission denied

Trying the same using the 'pwd' command:

loguser@enfcdb01 ~$ sudo su -c "pwd" imail /home/loguser

This seems to just report the current working directory of the loguser user, i.e. it has not changed to the imail home directory (which is perhaps expected with the '-c' option to su?)

Any additional ideas on how I can get this to work?

Thanks,

Tim

In reply to Re^2: Problem using Net::OpenSSH->capture to su to another user by tim.culhane
in thread Problem using Net::OpenSSH->capture to su to another user by tim.culhane

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