On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 08:18:43PM -0700, Night Librarian wrote: > I have a tiny question. I want to run the installation as a tomcat user, > instead of dspace, as described in this conversation. Howerver, when I try > to run on Ubuntu 20.4: > > sudo su - tomcat > > I get: > > "This account is currently not available." > > > Do I need to be a superuser to run mvn and ant? And if not, can I switch > to just "tomcat" user like this? > > su tomcat > > Because when I try, I am prompted for password, which I don't have, > probably because I didn't create a "tomcat" account manually, so I end up > with: > > su: Authentication failure > > How can I run install as a tomcat user?
"This account is currently not available." -- you'll probably find that the user 'tomcat' has '/sbin/nologin' for its shell. That's where this message comes from. You can override that by specifying the shell to use: sudo su - tomcat -s /bin/sh You'll probably find that the encrypted password for 'tomcat' is "!" which means "don't accept *any* password". So you need 'sudo' or being superuser to 'su' to 'tomcat'. The account effectively has a password that can never be known or guessed, because nothing will ever encrypt to "!". -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/YwTISLgJz0HOeW0r%40IUPUI.Edu.
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