On 4 Sep, 2006, at 12:09, Hari Sekhon wrote: > Alexander Harvey wrote: >> Note to Hari: my understanding is that sudo won't work for account >> that doesn't have a valid shell. Certainly all my testing led me to >> that conclusion. > > So it would seem that this is not correct. A valid shell is not > required.
Actually, to nitpick a little :) I'd think it's entirely possible that sudo requires a valid shell, just like FTP and such. But in that case "valid" would mean "listed in /etc/shells" and not "working like a normal shell"... I'd have to check the man-page to be sure though.. Cheers! Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
