In order to do some management tasks with cyrus, e.g. 'reconstruct', you must be user cyrus. The normal way to do this is to do "su cyrus" while logged in as root. However this doesn't work as the cyrus user (created by this package I'm assuming) isn't set up for this. I had to add an entry to /etc/shadow, and change /bin/false to /bin/bash in /etc/passwd before I could do this. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in as root, do "su cyrus". You get su: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. 2. Add an entry to /etc/shadow (copy the nobody line replacing "nobody" with "cyrus") and this goes away but you still can't succeed in changing to be user cyrus. 3. Update the cyrus entry in /etc/passwd replacing "false" with "bash" Actual Results: Having done the above you can now do "su cyrus" from root and run things like 'reconstruct' Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6. 14-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/ config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo-distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo" USE="x86 apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt cups eds emboss encode expat foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mhash mikmod motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
from the su(1) SYNOPSIS su [options] [-] [username [ args ]] ... OPTIONS ... -s, --shell SHELL The shell that will be invoked. The invoked shell is choosen among (higest priority first): o The shell specified with --shell o If --preserve-environment is used, the shell specified by the $SHELL environment variable. o The shell indicated in the /etc/passwd entry for the target user. o /bin/sh if a shell could not be found by any above method. ... so you can do su -s /bin/sh username "command --options" WFM. For exmaple: su -s /bin/sh cyrus -c "/usr/lib/cyrus/squatter -r user.joe@example.com" to create indexes for user Joe mailbox. Sorry for the late response. HTH Tuan
