On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:46:37PM -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > I got around to trying this today, but when I run my program I get an > error saying: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# su -l myuser -c "/usr/myapp/myprogram" > "This account is currently not available." > > Originally I created this user in /etc/passwd as follows: > > myuser:x:500:500::/tmp:/sbin/nologin > > When I changed the shell parameter to: > > myuser:x:500:500::/tmp:/bin/bash > > I was able to run the fine, and it showed up in the 'ps' list as running > as myuser: >
Try this: su -l myuser -s /bin/bash -c "/usr/myapp/myprogram" su by default uses the user's shell with -l if no shell is specificed. -s lets you specify a shell*, so the user still doesn't have a vaild shell except when you run it like this. I've actually found this quite handy in debugging daemon account run programs. Scott * -s is a GNU extension -- Scott Paul Robertson http://spr.mahonri5.net GnuPG FingerPrint: 09ab 64b5 edc0 903e 93ce edb9 3bcc f8fb dc5d 7601
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