Run command as not-root

Hi everyone

At work, I have to run a command in an AWS instance. In that particular instance only exists the root user. The command should not be executed with root privileges (it executes mpirun, which is not recommended to run as sudo or the machine might break), so I was wondering if there is a way to block or disable the sudo privileges while the command is running. As mentioned, the only user existing there is root, so I suppose “sudo -u” is not an option.

Does anyone know how to do it? Thanks in advance!

@linux

  • elscallr@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If a different user doesn’t exist then you obviously can’t run the command as that different user. The only solution here is to create a new user account.

    Also your image is improperly configured which is something you should fix first.

    • Nicolas Rojas@social.vivaldi.netOP
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      1 year ago

      @elscallr I agree about the instance configuration, fixing that is the real solution
      My question was not about running something as another user, but about hiding the superadmin privileges from a single command I’d execute without switching users. However it is clear that something like that doesn’t exist so I’ll do the right thing and set everything to work with a new user

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        You’ll thank yourself for it later. Things like this take a little longer up front but putting them off has a way of making you have to work around it again and again until, when you get around to correcting it, it takes far more time to undo the workarounds than it would’ve taken to correct it the first time.