On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Andrew Brown wrote:

> >su -m root -c "chsh -s /bin/csh"
>
> unless his non-standard shell actually takes arguments like that and
> does the right thing with them, that may not work.  su just passes
> extra arguments directly to the invoked shell.

The -m makes it use the current shell. So it is okay. (I have used this
many times to run things as "nobody" who doesn't have a real shell.)

Nevertheless, my solution doesn't work for this problem because su -m also
checks /etc/shells to see if the user switching to has a valid shell.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/