On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 21:44, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Why can I 'su apache'? I get the following results whether I do 'su apache' or 'su - 
> apache'. I'm writing a series of perl scripts to create a web frontend for portage. 
> I want 
> to run 'emerge' before and after adding apache to the portage group to see how it 
> acts. 
> This is very difficult to do when I can't switch to the user apache.

The shell for user apache is /bin/false, which means it will exit as
soon as it logs in.

You need to change the shell if you want to log in as apache.


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