launch .jar as a different user

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In ubuntu I am logged in as a standard user (with restricted privileges) and I would like to launch a .jar as the admin user, what would be the best way of doing this from the command line?

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Tomáš Plešek · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-10 12:02:23Z

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Use standard tools, i.e. sudo:

sudo java -jar yourjar.jar

As different user:

sudo -u anyuser java -jar yourjar.jar

edited Dec 10, 2011 at 12:02

answered Dec 10, 2011 at 11:49

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DaveB Over a year ago

Ok thanks, but this will run the application as root? I would like to run the application as a specific user, is that possible?

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