15 Dec
2012
15 Dec
'12
8:25 p.m.
Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> wrote:
At 5PM +0100 on 15/12/12 Daniel Parthey wrote:
Andreas Meyer wrote:
I managed to su to vmail by giving it a shell. # su - vmail
For security reasons, you should rather not give a login shell to non-interactive users.
[This is good advice.]
You can temporarily pass a shell to su:
su -s /bin/sh - vmail
That depends on your su. Mine won't do that. I believe your assumption that Andreas is on Linux, and therefore has a su that does do that, is correct, but I don't know. (I might assume that since I said earlier 'read your system's su(1)' that it doesn't; but then again I might not...)
Yes it does. man su says so too.
Ben