Ben Morrow <b...@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 >
