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Date:      Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:04:05 +0600 (NS)
From:      oleg dashevskii <od@iclub.nsu.ru>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   i386/31582: "su nobody -c command" refuses to work
Message-ID:  <200110291004.f9TA45E75021@iclub.nsu.ru>

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>Number:         31582
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       "su nobody -c command" refuses to work
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Oct 29 02:10:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     oleg dashevskii
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
NSU
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD iclub.nsu.ru 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #6: Thu Oct 4 22:35:22 NSS 2001 root@iclub.nsu.ru:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/iclub i386

>Description:
	su refuses to work for users which have /sbin/nologin as the shell.
	e.g., su man -c catman as specified in `man su` outputs
	"This account is currently not available"
	I've run into this problem trying to issue a command with nobody UID.

>How-To-Repeat:
	su man -c catman
>Fix:
	???
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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