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hanshenrik
Asked: 2019-10-20 12:24:47 +0800 CST

How to create a disabled account?

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How do I create a disabled account? for example when trying to login as nobody, 

root@miniubuntu1804:/home/hans/projects/evaler/src# su nobody
This account is currently not available.

how do I create an account like that?

users accounts

1 Answers

  1. adduser --shell=/usr/sbin/nologin disabledUser

    can also use --shell=/bin/false

    (what's the difference between them? don't know exactly, but you can probably get an answer to that question at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10852/whats-the-difference-between-sbin-nologin-and-bin-false )

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