On Friday 25 November 2005 21:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have an amanda user account. I don't know what password the portage
install used for it, so I stomped on it using the passwd command. No
doing an:
su amanda
appears to work (there is no login error), but when I do a whoami, it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
su amanda
appears to work (there is no login error), but when I do a whoami, it
reports root, or whatever user I logged in from.
Sounds as though you don't have a valid shell set for that user. What does
grep ^amanda /etc/passwd
show?
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Keith Edmunds
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 07:32:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have an amanda user account. I don't know what password the portage
install used for it, so I stomped on it using the passwd command. No
doing an:
su amanda
appears to work (there is no login error), but when I do a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have an amanda user account. I don't know what password the portage
install used for it, so I stomped on it using the passwd command. No
doing an:
su amanda
appears to work (there is no login error), but when I do a whoami, it
reports root, or whatever user I
* Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-26 11:36]:
However, here, I can as root, do an su amanda and become amanda to
the whois command, so there may be something else at work as I do
not have to supply the amanda passwd to become amanda from root.
I installed amanda from gentoo 2005 using
I have an amanda user account. I don't know what password the portage
install used for it, so I stomped on it using the passwd command. No
doing an:
su amanda
appears to work (there is no login error), but when I do a whoami, it
reports root, or whatever user I logged in from. Running
