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Alexander Zeitler
Asked: 2019-06-12 05:56:02 +0800 CST

sudo -su: Command not found

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I'm doing this in a .sh script which I'm calling like this sudo ./script.sh:

user=${SUDO_USER} # ="alex"
sudo -su ${user} node

Result:

/bin/bash: node: command not found

Same goes for other commands like yarn or nvm also all are installed and working when being logged in as alex

What am I doing wrong?

which node run as alex returns this:

/home/alex/.nvm/versions/node/v10.15.1/bin/node

node for alex is installed using nvm which adds this to the end of /home/alex/.zshrc (alex is using zsh)

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion
bash zsh sudo

1 Answers

  1. I think there is no user named node. try this

    cat /etc/passwd | grep node

    if it prints node, this works

    user=${SUDO_USER} 
sudo -su ${user} node

    if not create user named node, sth like this 

    adduser node
user=${SUDO_USER} 
sudo -su ${user} node

    and finally your scripts.sh will work.

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