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  • OK, so why the anonymous downvote? After all, I've at least tried to verify from the console, but that just works :/ Commented Sep 8, 2019 at 15:51
  • Is the socket present? Do you have permissions to access it? Commented Sep 8, 2019 at 17:07
  • @Tomasz The socket is present and I have permissions to access it (after all, it works from the console) Commented Sep 8, 2019 at 19:00
  • But do you have access to it as www-data (or whoever the server runs as)? Commented Sep 8, 2019 at 19:33
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    root can always switch to any uid, even if have /bin/false or similar as a shell. e.g. su - www-data -s /bin/bash. Commented Sep 9, 2019 at 2:24