How to run script as another user without password?

Solution 1:

try running:

su -c "Your command right here" -s /bin/sh username

This will run the command as username given that you have permissions to sudo as that user.

Solution 2:

Call visudo and add this:

user1 ALL=(user2) NOPASSWD: /home/user2/bin/test.sh

The command paths must be absolute! Then call sudo -u user2 /home/user2/bin/test.sh from a user1 shell. Done.

Solution 3:

`su -c "Your command right here" -s /bin/sh username`

The above command is correct, but on Red Hat if selinux is enforcing it will not allow cron to execute scripts as another user. example; execl: couldn't exec /bin/sh execl: Permission denied

I had to install setroubleshoot and setools and run the following to allow it:

yum install setroubleshoot setools
sealert -a /var/log/audit/audit.log
grep crond /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol
semodule -i mypol.p