shiny server: is it possible to log in to `shiny` user?

[Dean Attali]

I'm wondering if it's possible to change user to the `shiny` user in the shell. When I run `su shiny` it prompts me for a password and I don't know what the default password is for that user.  I want to login as shiny to be able to debug a problem that's happening only when apps run as shiny in shiny server, yet work fine if I change the "run_as".

[Dean Attali]

Got it - I just had to "sudo su shiny" , when I just did "su shiny" from a non-root account it asked me for a password even though there is no password to the user

[Weston Mueller]

I logged in as root and reset the password to get this to work.