logging in as second user at command prompt

[roncrump]

I have created a second user account on my system.

I want to use this to set up and test a software system at home which runs as a user account on the production system at work.

So, I want to logon as the second user from the command line - I do not want to logout and log in as the new user at the gnome login prompt.

That is, I want to have myself logged in within gnome, then in a terminal be logged in as the second account and accessing the directories etc within that space.

I tried just typing "login two" and just got a message about having to use login at the lowest sh level and something about no utmp empty.

Any suggestions? I'm sure this is ridiculously simple, really.

Ron.

[LaRoza]

You can run something as another user with "sudo".

[roncrump]

You can run something as another user with "sudo".

I don't just want to run something as that user, rather be that user within that terminal window in order to do a lot of things.

Ron.

[ruibernardo]

Maybe you want su:


su another_username
<password>

[roncrump]

Maybe you want su:


su another_username
<password>

Would that be equivalent to

sudo login another_username
<password>[/QUOTE]
or different?