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Sebastian Hagedorn Hagedorn at uni-koeln.de
Fri Oct 16 07:42:08 EDT 2015


--On 3. Oktober 2015 05:51:42 -0500 Patrick Goetz <pgoetz at mail.utexas.edu> 
wrote:

> I have a question about best practices.  I usually have the shell for
> user cyrus set to /bin/false.  So to run a reconstruct, I have to change
> this to /bin/bash (or something) first in order to be able to log in as
> cyrus and execute the reconstruct command.
>
> On the other hand, this is only the second time I've had to run
> reconstruct in 12 years of using cyrus.  What do most people do about
> this?  Is cyrus an ordinary user who can log in by default, or is it
> best practice to have shell /bin/false, as I do with most other daemon
> users?

We use user cyrus all the time. Not only for reconstruct, but also for 
tools like mbexamine, chk_cyrus etc.
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