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Author: Kevin Brown
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Subject: sudo use
> anyone know how with su or sudo to set the home directory to be something
> other than what is in /etc/passwd or the executing PWD? Specifically in
> an init script starting a service as an alternative user such as webapp


I would think adding the HOME= variable to the head of the script would do that.

e.g.

#!/bin/bash
HOME=/opt/home/apache
cd
./command