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Date:      Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:38:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Need help.
Message-ID:  <14784.58080.50490.551241@onceler.kciLink.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009121751270.32975-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
References:  <003501c01d0f$580659a0$500b08c3@casa> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009121751270.32975-100000@heorot.1nova.com>

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>>>>> "RH" == Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> 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.

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