Changing the login shell for a user
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Changing the login shell for a user
If you experience an error like:
su: cannot run /sbin/nologin: No such file or directory
when you try to do
su some_user
you have to change the login shell for that user.
Notice: You should be sure about using vi
properly before doing this.
This is done with the following line:
vi /etc/passwd
You'll see a line like this:
some_user:x:1025:100:Descriptive text:/nonexist:/sbin/nologin
Change that line to:
some_user:x:1025:100:Descriptive text:/nonexist:/bin/ash
Save the file, and you're done. You're now able to do
su some_user