How to switch to non-root user at runtime

[sofo506]

Hello, 

Here is a snippte of yml file and is it possible to switch non-root user at runtime ? Below whoami is returning root. Need to run npm run e2etest as a non-root user.

Thank you

[DPK J · Accepted solution]

@sofo506 Nice question,

Here are some pointers to help you,

• The individual commands that you write in `scripts` array executed independently.
• This means,  even if you switch user in one command (script) rest will execute in same old shell as previous switch won't have any effect on next command
• To get rid of this situation you can merge two step, eg,

  • - su - taiko -C "touch me" && whoami && ... && ...

• Or another way is, writing steps in using this syntax

• - su -s /bin/bash -c "whoami" taiko

Hope this helps.