mindfuq AT verizon DOT net wrote:

I have an amanda user account.  I don't know what password the portage
install used for it, so I stomped on it using the passwd command.  No
doing an:

  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.  Running amcheck
fails, reporting that I must be logged in as amanda.  Any clues?

Stefan