[SOLVED] How to pass variables of one user to another user in Linux?

Issue

I have a user myuser and an environment variable test

export var=test

Saved bashprofile and works fine.

When running a shell script, I like to pass above variable and echo it with different user like below.

sudo su - anotheruser -c 'echo ${var}'

I tried this and it did not work. How do I pass the variable in the shell script ?

Thanks in advance.

Solution

Use the -E flag of sudo to maintain environment variables:

sudo -E su anotheruser -c 'echo ${var}'

Answered By - Aplet123

Answer Checked By - Senaida (WPSolving Volunteer)