sudo -u x -i doesn't work

[alanfgates]

[vagrant@nn ~]$ sudo -u hive -i
This account is currently not available.

But:
[vagrant@nn ~]$ sudo -u hive bash
bash-4.1$ whoami
hive

Pretty minor, but it's still useful.

[omalley]

It is because hive doesn't have a shell defined. In particular, it looks like:
hive:x:493:493:Hive:/var/lib/hive:/sbin/nologin
I see the other service accounts have bash as their shell. In general, the user accounts should have /sbin/nologin as their shell since it is considered more secure. I suspect the difference is coming up because vagrant is creating the hive user and the hadoop rpms are creating the hdfs and yarn users.

[davidhoyle]

Okay, thanks very much for the additional info!

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 6:26 PM, omalley notifications@github.com wrote:

It is because hive doesn't have a shell defined. In particular, it looks
like:
hive[image: ❌]493:493:Hive:/var/lib/hive:/sbin/nologin
I see the other service accounts have bash as their shell. In general, the
user accounts should have /sbin/nologin as their shell since it is
considered more secure. I suspect the difference is coming up because
vagrant is creating the hive user and the hadoop rpms are creating the hdfs
and yarn users.

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