From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 21: 0:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 545CD37B422; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 178463286; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:24:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 048E73285; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:24:47 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:24:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Ben Smithurst Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Need help. In-Reply-To: <20000914031210.F77593@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> i have /sbin/nologin accounts. When i do "su login" i receive this: > >> "This account is currently not available.". How can i do to access > >> this "nologin" shell's? > > > > Um... nologin means jut that... you can't login as that user. > > Yes, but you should still be able to su to that user. > > RTFM. In particular, try the su(1) manual page. And more particularly, > the -m option. Cool... I was under the mistaken impression that nologin would do just that, no questions asked. Ah well... Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message