From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 14 7:38:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kciLink.com [204.117.82.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3B4B37B424 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 07:38:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [204.117.82.2]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88663E8D4 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:38:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8EEcOH06729; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:38:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14784.58080.50490.551241@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:38:24 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Need help. In-Reply-To: References: <003501c01d0f$580659a0$500b08c3@casa> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 11) "Carlsbad Caverns" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "RH" == Rick Hamell writes: >> 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? RH> Um... nologin means jut that... you can't login as that user. If RH> you need to do use vipw to change the shell to something else like bash, RH> sh, csh, etc. Yes, but he wants to "su" to that account. Just use "su -m" as the man page indicates. It will use your own environment. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message