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  • created: 2013-07-10
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How to get a shell for a non-shell user

Non shell unix users are useful to run services or daemons, but sometimes you may need a shell to test something failing…

When a user do login on a system a program is executed. This program is usualy a shell, but it may be any other. That program is specified in last column in the file /etc/passwd:

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
bacula:x:104:106:Bacula:/var/lib/bacula:/bin/false

Here, the user bacula has /bin/false as shell. So when bacula do login, the system execute false and imediatly is log out.

root can use open a shell for the specified user just with:

root@example:~# su bacula -s /bin/bash
bacula@example:/root$
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