[Zope] starting zope with su instead of -u

Dylan Reinhardt zope@dylanreinhardt.com
30 May 2003 17:24:32 -0700


On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 16:54, Jamie Heilman wrote:
> Dylan Reinhardt wrote:
> > This feels like a huge newbie question, but I'm starting to lose hair
> > and I was surprised not to find anything helpful in the archives.
>  
> > su - -c START_COMMAND zope
> 
> your zope user probably doesn't have a valid shell in the passwd
> database, and su is probably honoring that

I have zope set up to use bash in /etc/passwd and don't have any trouble
doing su - zope at a root prompt.  That's a good mistake to rule out,
though.

Any other thoughts?

Dylan