Step 6.34 (in LFS 8.1 - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/bash.html) suggest to run the tests as the nobody user:
su nobody -s /bin/bash -c "PATH=$PATH make tests" However, when I want to that, or even a simpler su nobody -s /bin/bash I get a Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied error. The permissions on / , /bin and /bin/bash are 755. /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow contain the user and the group: root:/# grep ^no /etc/passwd /etc/group /etc/shadow /etc/passwd:nobody:x:99:99:Unprivileged User:/dev/null:/bin/false /etc/group:nogroup:x:99: /etc/shadow:nobody:x:17579:0:99999:7::: If I try to do the same thing with an inexisting user, I get an according No passwd entry for user 'bla' I'd appreciate any hint on what might cause this error message
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