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[Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>]

On Wednesday 05 Oct 2005 17:29, Treeve Jelbert wrote:
> 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



the problem disappears if I add a home directory for the firebird user
$grep "firebird" /etc/*
firebird:x:84:84::/var/run/firebird:/bin/false



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Regards, Treeve