From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 13 19:51:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BAD237B43C; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:51:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13ZOVX-00060y-00; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 03:12:11 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA24472; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 03:12:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 03:12:10 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Rick Hamell Cc: Jorge Filipe Andrade , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Need help. Message-ID: <20000914031210.F77593@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <003501c01d0f$580659a0$500b08c3@casa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Hamell wrote: > >> 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. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message