newbie: using su

[michael.cameron@technologist.com]

Okay, so su doesn't work, can I just use brute force? If I ALWAYS want to log on as another user (the "owner" of a particular application) and never as me (my W2K login for mail etc..)

What if I remove my entry from /etc/passwd, make a copy of the desired users entry in /etc/passwd then change the name in that entry to my user name (making sure this entry comes after the real users entry).  I then log in as me but am now the first user.  Any side-effects that I should be aware of?

example:
desireduser::1002:513:The user I want to be,S-1-5-21-1538995194-1560047842-1096501715-100
2::/bin/sh
me::1002:513:trendadm,S-1-5-21-1538995194-1560047842-1096501715-1002::/bin/sh


Michael

P.S. What is that entry in the gecos field?




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