Hi Friends,

I have a query about non-interactive login..

I want to add a user "test" with non-interactive login.
Step: useradd -s /sbin/nologin test
passwd test
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Now I want to #su test

But I am getting the below error.
"This account is currently not available" message.

I have also make some changes in /etc/security/access.conf file but no luck. How can we do this???

testisallow console logins to all but a few accounts.
#
#-:ALL EXCEPT wheel shutdown sync:LOCAL
#
# Disallow non-local logins to privileged accounts (group wheel).
#
#-:wheel:ALL EXCEPT LOCAL .win.tue.nl


Thanks-

it's because test account has default shell /usr/bin/nologin (also can be /sbin/nologin) or something like that, which produces that message and then exits.
to change shell permanently: . run to login under test once with shell /bin/sh (a safer way, if you aren't planning to use test later permanently).

Actually I want to su from that user test permanently. I have heard about that I have to make some changes in profile file, but I don't know exactly, any more idea??

in that case you can do chsh as i specified. does that help?

That will change the shell but I don't want to change the shell.

then i know only one solution-specify -s with su everytime. because if there is "nologin" shell on account, this account cannot do anything.