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...) Ben
