[NTLUG:Discuss] su?

[Lance Simmons]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:40:33PM -0500, Michael Patrick wrote:
> Maybe I am missing something... why not just su to the user in question?

That's what I'd like to do, but how? www is a special account
used by the webserver, and I'm not sure how to find out what its
password is, or how to change it. If a person were root, he
could obviously "su www", but I don't want anyone to be root.

If I were to change the password for www, wouldn't that mess up
the services that run as www? Or do they not need a password
because they're started by root?

Am I missing something really obvious here? 

Lance Simmons