Bug#3027: updatedb can't run properly

[karl@tower.net.au (Karl Ferguson)]

Package: base
Version: 1.1.0-7

Hi Everyone.

In the /etc/passwd nobody has a shell of /dev/null.  However, updatedb will
not run as nobody because it tells me this message when I do it manually
(hence the find crontab in cron.daily won't work):

[root@kaos:1:~] su nobody -c "cd / && updatedb"
su: cannot run /dev/null: Permission denied
[root@kaos:1:~]

When I change the shell to /bin/sh or /bin/false (the latter probobly being
the better one) it works fine.  For your information, this is a brand new
installation as of two days ago.

...Karl
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