The monkeysphere system user must have bash as its shell for the simple su invocation to work. Do not try to explicitly preserve the environment across an su, as this is the default, and -m implies using the login shell of the superuser under FreeBSD.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/monkeysphere-server b/src/monkeysphere-server
index b1cacf9..db3687b 100755
--- a/src/monkeysphere-server
+++ b/src/monkeysphere-server
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ EOF
 }
 
 su_monkeysphere_user() {
-    su -m "$MONKEYSPHERE_USER" -c "$@"
+    su "$MONKEYSPHERE_USER" -c "$@"
 }
 
 # function to interact with the host gnupg keyring
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ diagnostics() {
     warndate=$(advance_date $warnwindow +%s)
 
     if ! id monkeysphere >/dev/null ; then
-	echo "! No monkeysphere user found!  Please create a monkeysphere system user."
+	echo "! No monkeysphere user found!  Please create a monkeysphere system user with bash as its shell."
 	problemsfound=$(($problemsfound+1))
     fi