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sudo -i only allows one argument

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Is this normal?

> sudo -u misc -i "ls"

note test tmp

> sudo -u misc -i "ls ~"

-bash: ls ~: command not found

> sudo -u misc -i "ls ~"

-bash: ls ~: command not found

> sudo -u misc -i "foo=bar"

[misc]

Anything that's got a space in it seems to be interpreted as a single command, which is unrecognised. Even weirder, setting any environment variable drops me into the other user's account. How can I run those commands as expected?

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answered 2 Years ago tigehanc · Accepted Answer

The command and arguments passed to sudo should not be surrounded in quotes, so you can try

sudo -u misc -i ls -l

but

sudo -u misc -i ls ~

should not list misc's home directory content, but your home, because the ~ character is expanded before been passed to sudo. You could try to avoid this using

sudo -u misc -i ls '~'

but this again doesn't work, because sudo do not invoke a shell to execute its command, so ~ has no meaning out of a shell.

Finally, the solution could be

sudo -u misc -i bash -c 'ls ~'