On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:51:52PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Pierre Schmitz schrieb: > > 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. > > Did you try adding it to /etc/shells? >
/etc/shells is used to hold valid user shells. This is used by various daemons (ftp) and tools (chsh). No good idea to add "/bin/false". Jürgen _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
