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Create a Linux User with non-interactive shell - KodeKloud

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The System admin team of xFusionCorp Industries has installed a backup agent tool on all app servers. As per the tool's requirements they need to create a user with a non-interactive shell.Therefore, create a user named mark with a non-interactive shell in the app02 server

Click on ✔ and Do Task Again

Solution:-

SSh acording to Task

ssh tony@stapp01 ## AppServer 1 Pass= Ir0nM@n
### OR
ssh steve@stapp02 ## Appserver 2 Pass = Am3ric@
### OR
ssh banner@stapp03 ## AppServer 3 Pass = BigGr33n

Replace user Name Acording To Task

sudo adduser user -s /sbin/nologin
cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd

danielitogomez commented Jun 18, 2021 •

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It's sudo adduser user -s /sbin/nologin instead that sudo adduser user -s /sbin/nologin/

ak-alam commented Jun 21, 2021

I tried creating the user with the above command but my task failed and the task not complete pops up.

jaliagag commented Jun 25, 2021 •

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sudo adduser mark -s /sbin/false

or like I did: sudo adduser mark then sudo vi /etc/passwd and then changed the ending for the mark user from /sbin/bash to /sbin/false.

difference between false and nologin: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10852/whats-the-difference-between-sbin-nologin-and-bin-false
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4676/creating-a-user-who-cannot-get-an-interactive-shell

suvra-roy commented Dec 4, 2021

Where did you get server credentials ?

Jkudjo commented May 30, 2022

Server Name | IP | Hostname | User | Password

wila-diaz commented Jun 10, 2022

Server Name | IP | Hostname | User | Password

stapp01 | 172.16.238.10 | stapp01.stratos.xfusioncorp.com | tony | Ir0nM@n stapp02 | 172.16.238.11 | stapp02.stratos.xfusioncorp.com | steve | Am3ric@ stapp03 | 172.16.238.12 | stapp03.stratos.xfusioncorp.com | banner | BigGr33n

How did you find this information? @Jkudjo

Jkudjo commented Jun 10, 2022 via email •

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it was in the introductory. @wdiazplus i mean the project brief

KalyaniSagane commented Jul 30, 2022

[sudo] password for banner:
how to find password?

Nandha315 commented Aug 20, 2022

the password and everything is in the wiki page in top left

Sugarcothe commented Dec 3, 2022

that password does not work

pileus-lines commented Feb 27, 2023

My proposition was : useradd -Mr -s /usr/sbin/nologin LOGIN
RTFM (man useradd) ;)

jezreelfasa commented May 7, 2023

This is how I created mine and it worked finally after several tries.
ssh into the server specified.
e.g. ssh tony@stapp01
enter the passwd for tony;
now create user with no interactive shell
sudo useradd --shell /bin/false john

check to see if the user created has no interactive shell, should look like this; /bin/false instead of /bin/bash

use this command to check:
cat /etc/passwd

blankfil commented Jul 4, 2023

Having some background of Linux commands is of great help.
First ssh user@ with server name or ip address
input password for the particular user as provided
once you login: ls /home to check the existing users
sudo su to switch to root adduser

Dconsultstech commented Sep 10, 2023

Yeah. I faced same issue too but i am able to resolve it using your guide. Thank you, it was very much helpful