[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
su amanda

appears to work (there is no login error), but when I do a whoami, it
reports root, or whatever user I logged in from.

Sounds as though you don't have a valid shell set for that user. What does

        grep ^amanda /etc/passwd

show?

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Keith Edmunds

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