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How do I su to the odoo account?

nicholas@mordor:~$ 
nicholas@mordor:~$ sudo su odoo -
This account is currently not available.
nicholas@mordor:~$ 
nicholas@mordor:~$ awk -F: '{ print $1 }' /etc/passwd | grep odoo
odoo
nicholas@mordor:~$ 
nicholas@mordor:~$ ll /etc/odoo/odoo.conf 
-rw-r----- 1 odoo odoo 214 Dec 15 01:28 /etc/odoo/odoo.conf
nicholas@mordor:~$

Presumably I should be editing the odoo.conf file as the odoo user.

I can switch to root with sudo su root - of course.

Perhaps the answer is that "you don't" as:

nicholas@mordor:~$ 
nicholas@mordor:~$ cat /etc/passwd | grep odoo
odoo:x:132:140::/var/lib/odoo:/usr/sbin/nologin
nicholas@mordor:~$

is this just how odoo is configured?

Nicholas Saunders
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Presumably I should be editing the odoo.conf file as the odoo user."

No.

Make the file writable for group and add your admin user to the odoo group. Use ...

sudo chown 660 /etc/odoo/odoo.conf
sudo usermod -a -G odoo $USER

... and there is no need for switching and you can use your normal admin account. It is the easiest and best method to allow permission to edit the file.

Rinzwind
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