Bash script to switch the user

Question

I am having a cent-OS server with 5 accounts: developer , user1 , user2 , user3 and user4 . All the user home directories are under /home like /home/developer , /home/user1 , /home/user2 , /home/user3 and /home/user4 . I want to create a 4 scripts: user1.sh , user2.sh , user3.sh and user4.sh inside the /home/developer folder. When the user developer run the script user1.sh , he switches to the user1 and cd to the home directory of user1 ( /home/user1 ) and so on for the remaining scripts. The idea behind is to keep the developer from the root access and allow switch to other user's home directory by simple executing a command with that user's name. Is it possible?

Answer 1

I suppose you're looking at su - otherUser

Of course, you'll have to provide the password of the other user.

I suppose that something like sudo su - otherUser could work but I haven't tried