Dunno... I always prefer a program to change user/drop privs itself... probally a personal preference thing. At work I tried to do a su -c first and RedHat gives nodoby a shell of /bin/nologin by default so it didn't work. Could I change nobody's shell? Sure. I hacked this in for my own use really, just decided to send the patch to the list and see if anyone else wanted it. I would be interested in knowing if the method I used to drop privs isn't secure, however.
You can give: su - <user> -s /bin/bash -c "distccd" This overrride the shell defined for this user. You must be root to do that of course. -jec
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