Cannot switch user in exec pipeline

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Tried to switch system user by following pipeline config
—
kind: pipeline
type: exec
name: deploy

platform:
  os: linux
  arch: amd64

steps:
- name: restart
  commands:
  - su - ubuntu
  - whoami

but still getting a root user, anyway to swtich user?

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The commands section is essentially just a bash script. Are you sure you can use su in a bash script like this? According to Stackoverflow it is not possible:

3

Right the problem was fixed, anyway is it possible set a user to execute the commands in yml config file?