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when logged in as user 'www-data' on my debian server (squeeze) i want to use bash-completion. I follewed this guide, but i doesn't succeed: it is working for all regular users but not for www-data! what's wrong?

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When you log in as www-data often enough that bash completion is worth the hassle, you have a serious problem with the administration. – thiton Jan 13 at 10:48
Are you sure that www-data has correct shell? Check by echo $SHELL or echo $0 in console. – 4ndrew Jan 13 at 10:53
@4andrew: that's the fault! 'sh' was the enabled shell ... thanks fpr your answer. – user1116675 Jan 13 at 13:23
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As a normal user with bash completion do:

sudo -u www-data #rest of command here#

and you'll get the rest of the command allowing bash completion.

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