Opened 10 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#887 closed defect (fixed)
Can't su into unprivileged user when following documentation
| Reported by: | Daniel Krol | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | programming | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Parent Tickets: |
Description
The documentation says to create a system user for the unprivileged user that runs mediagoblin. On my system, this meant that I couldn't su into it (and there was no error message when I tried and failed). Looking around online, it sounds like this is intentional. If it's a system user, it's not meant to have a shell. Its shell is /bin/false. So here's a way to do it anyway:
sudo su - mediagoblin -s /bin/bash
or
su - mediagoblin -s /bin/bash
I'm on Debian 7.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 10 years ago
comment:2 by , 8 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Happened to check back here after a long time - it's fixed in the latest documentation. Thanks!
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Ah, I see that this is already in master. I'm looking on http://mediagoblin.readthedocs.org/ and it's not there yet.