<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks Scott! That worked! Oh man, I really thought I'd trashed this server.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">
I just love it about Linux that one can mount a server as a drive on another machine, and fix things by editing a plain text file.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">
ed</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Scott McBrien <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smcbrien@gmail.com" target="_blank">smcbrien@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Yes. You'll have to force write it since the file is set to ro by default. On a working machine you'd use usermod to 'unlock' the user.</div>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Scott</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Feb 17, 2014, at 7:30 PM, Edward Holcroft <<a href="mailto:eholcroft@mkainc.com" target="_blank">eholcroft@mkainc.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Only sshd and the user I created are set to nologin.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div>
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In /etc/shadow I do see ! in front of my sudo user. What do I do? just delete it?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">ed</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Scott McBrien <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smcbrien@gmail.com" target="_blank">smcbrien@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Check the /etc/passwd file and make sure the she'll hasn't been set to /sbin/nologin, also that the user in question hasn't been locked with a preceding ! In their encrypted password field of /etc/shadow.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Scott</div><div><div><div><br>On Feb 17, 2014, at 7:09 PM, Edward Holcroft <<a href="mailto:eholcroft@mkainc.com" target="_blank">eholcroft@mkainc.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div></div>
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<blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Created a user with nologin option on one of my Amazon servers. Now cannot connect as my ubuntu/sudo user. Somehpw the nologin option applies to my sudo user, so keep getting permission denied message. I can connect as an ordinary user that I created, but no way to get root from there.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I mounted the drive to another server, thinking I'd just delete /etc/nologin, and problem solved, except there is no /etc/nologin file to be found</div>
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