[2010-09-13 15:43:33 +0200] Thomas Bächler: > Am 13.09.2010 13:18, schrieb Pierre Schmitz: > > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:16:53 +0200, Thomas Bächler > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Am 13.09.2010 13:05, schrieb Pierre Schmitz: > >>> * the cron is run as nobody and not root (anyone knows how to do this > >>> without sudo? no, su does not work it seems) > >> > >> $ su -c "/usr/bin/pkgstats" nobody > >> I use this everywhere, and it works. > > > > Doesn't work here (tested on several systems). It always asks me to > > change the password for the user nobody. > > Yes, the user needs to be able to log in (nobody has an invalid shell by > default iirc).
This can be overriden by "su -s /bin/sh nobody"; the issue here is that the third field of nobody's entry in /etc/shadow (which indicates when the password was last changed) is set to "0" (any positive value would work). -- Gaetan
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