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How to create and modify user accounts to have a nologin shell?
For security reasons, sometimes you would require that your users are not able to login to the server. The simple solution is to configure their accounts such that their login shell is set to /sbin/nologin. To modify an existing user, execute the command:
How to give / usr / bin / nologin to non root accounts?
I’m curious how someone would implement a script to give either /usr/bin/nologin or /bin/false to all non-root system accounts between 1-999 (and any determined uid range, for that matter). I like to do this regularly on machines (save for rsync and a few other apps), but I do it manually.
How can I Make my user not login to my server?
For security reasons, sometimes you would require that your users are not able to login to the server. The simple solution is to configure their accounts such that their login shell is set to /sbin/nologin. To modify an existing user, execute the command: usermod -s /sbin/nologin .
Why is my Linux user not able to login?
So you don’t have to add AllowUsers and if you add this option I don’t think it prevent from remote root login if you enabled PermitRootLogin Check the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. Check if the “PasswordAuthentication” line is set to “no”. Change this to “yes” and save the file. You have to do this as sudo.
Why is Apache’s login shell set to nologin?
Setting the Apache user’s shell to something non-interactive is generally good security practice (really all service users who don’t have to log in interactively should have their shell set to something that’s non-interactive). the shell for the user www-data is set to /usr/sbin/nologin, and it’s set for a very good reason.
What happens if I set sbin / nologin as the shell?
When /sbin/nologin is set as the shell, if user with that shell logs in, they’ll get a polite message saying ‘This account is currently not available.’ This message can be changed with the file /etc/nologin.txt.