Amanda-Users

Re: Trouble loggin in as "amanda"

2005-11-26 10:28:58
Subject: Re: Trouble loggin in as "amanda"
From: Keith Edmunds <keith AT midnighthax DOT com>
To: mindfuq AT verizon DOT net
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:02:46 +0000
mindfuq AT verizon DOT net wrote:
su amanda

appears to work (there is no login error), but when I do a whoami, it
reports root, or whatever user I logged in from.

Sounds as though you don't have a valid shell set for that user. What does

        grep ^amanda /etc/passwd

show?

--
Keith Edmunds

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