[CentOS] Running commands as apache user

Sat Aug 8 00:01:37 UTC 2020
H <agents at meddatainc.com>

On 08/07/2020 07:56 PM, H wrote:
> I have a dilemma: I have nextcloud running under user and group apache, as recommended by the installation. I now have to run some nextcloud commands but even as root I cannot su to user apache because "this account is currently not available". Is there a way around this? The commands must be run as user apache...
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Fixed. I found "su -l apache -s /bin/bash" on the web which allows me to get around the nologin.