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How to login from terminal ?

Asked by Emad William

how to log off the current user of the terminal (of Gnome, the one in Applications->Accessories) and sign in using another one ?

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Raphaël Walther (rafikiwi-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Hello Wiliam,

Use the "su" commande to become another user i.e. :
su andrew
to log as andrew.

Hope this help.

Regards,
Raphaël

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Emad William (emadwilliam) said : 		#2

Thanks for answering.
Is there anyway to pass the password as an argument, because I want to call it from php.

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Raphaël Walther (rafikiwi-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

Emad,
I don't know. I have found nothing which can help in the man page "man su".
Regards,
Raphaël

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Lasse Luttermann (lasse-luttermann) said : 		#4

You could use something like
$ sudo su - USERNAME -c 'command_to_be_executed'

sudo makes the command be executed as root, and then su doesn't need a password. and sudo doesn't need one if it is specified in it's config file.
man sudo
man sudoers

This is kind if a dirty hack, be ware that it is dangerous to have anything running as root! including the su command.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

To logout from a user you can use the:

logout

command or

exit

command or type CTRL+D from keyboard

Hope this helps

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Okougbo Lexity (lexity-okougbo) said : 		#6

tanks