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  • From: Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] coreutils su problem ?
  • Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 17:29:58 +0000

I have just encountered a problem when starting a service which worked
previously.

I eventually traced it to

$ su firebird
su: user firebird does not exist


but
$grep "firebird" /etc/*
/etc/group:firebird:x:84:treeve
/etc/passwd:firebird:x:84:84:::
/etc/shadow:firebird:!:12992:0:99999:7:::

# useradd -u 84 firebird
useradd: user firebird exists


there appears to be a problem with su from coreutils-5.3.0


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Regards, Treeve




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