Helen Borrie wrote:

> Actually, doing an su to the firebird user probably isn't going to be
> ideal as you won't know what its password is. In the past, I've
> thought about su-ing to root and changing the firebird password to
> something I know about.

You don't have to know the password if you're root. In fact, you can
login even if user has locked password. Simply do:

# su - firebird

and you're in. In most cases it is good idea to source the profile to
get the "usual" user shell environment:

$ source /etc/profile



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