[arch] problems with su and new coreutils

[Thomas Bächler]

Pierre Schmitz schrieb:
> I just noticed that it is not possible to use su to switch to a user which 
> has /bin/false as shell with current coreutils. This is used by some daemons 
> like ejabberd to run the service as a non-root user.
> 
> Is this a feature of new coreutils or a bug? If I change /bin/false 
> to /bin/bahs everything works as expected, but I don`t think this is a very 
> good idea.

Did you try adding it to /etc/shells?

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