On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 10:55:41AM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just noticed that it is not possible to use su to switch to a user which 
> has /bin/false as shell with current coreutils. This is used by some daemons 
> like ejabberd to run the service as a non-root user.
> 
> Is this a feature of new coreutils or a bug? If I change /bin/false 
> to /bin/bahs everything works as expected, but I don`t think this is a very 
> good idea.

Command is passed to "/bin/false" which will fail.
Try: su -s /bin/bash


Jürgen

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