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[Tom Sparrow]

Not sure how 'answered' this question is since 3rd, but since I was 
having this problem this week thought I'd pitch in.

I used
sudo -u cyrus /bin/sh
which saves on forgetting to change it back (and has the advantage of 
not opening anything up further than required in the mean time).


On 16/10/15 12:42, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
> --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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