Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I do not understand this comment at all. Under RH 5.2, after doing
> su - alias
> the output of whoami was `alias'. Now it is still root. Why do I
> need a valid shell to be able to do this?
I don't know if Red Hat is weird, but under most operating systems if you
su to a user, you get that user's shell. If you set the shell to
/bin/true, it will then immediately exit, leaving you back as root again.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
