Re: Why do system users have valid shells

[Tobias Reckhard <jester71@gmx.net>]

Dariush Pietrzak wrote:

> > 'su -s /bin/bash -c "cmd" user ' 
> >
> > sounds like a very bs argument
>
>  Do you understand the term 'breakage' ?
> How about the idea that changing something in the system may force to you
> to rewrite parts of code?

Hence my original question. OK, it doesn't break cron, it does break 'su 
-c'. You can fix the latter by finding all instances of 'su -c' and 
replacing them with 'su -s /bin/sh -c'.

Is there anything else that will probably break?

Cheers,
Tobias