Help with su on 6.3

Alex Zbyslaw xfb52 at dial.pipex.com
Thu Feb 14 14:16:08 UTC 2008


Derek Ragona wrote:

> I usually just set the shell to /usr/bin/false or /usr/sbin/nologin 
> for users like these.  Of course you can't test these interactively 
> with su.  If you want to do that, give the account a valid login 
> shell, test it, then set it to false or nologin.
>
It's not clear to me what you mean by "you can't test these 
interactively with su".  If you mean you can't su to them and get a 
shell; that's wrong.

su -m account_with_fake_shell

--Alex



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