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

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