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naveen sanjula
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Day 1: Linux User Setup with Non Interactive Shell

To create a user named ravi with a non-interactive shell on App Server 1, follow these steps

✅ Linux CLI

  1. Access App Server 1 If you're managing multiple servers, first connect to App Server 1 via SSH 
   ssh user@stapp01  # Replace `user` with the appropriate username
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  1. Create the user with a non interactive shell Use /sbin/nologin or /usr/sbin/nologin (depending on the distro) 
   sudo useradd -s /sbin/nologin ravi
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  • -s /sbin/nologin sets the user's shell to "non interactive" (i.e., login access is disabled).

  • ravi is the username.

On some systems, the non interactive shell might be located at /usr/sbin/nologin. Use that if /sbin/nologin doesn't exist.

  1. Verify the user and shell Run 
   grep ravi /etc/passwd
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Expected output

   ravi:x:1001:1001::/home/ravi:/sbin/nologin
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ssh steve@stapp02

(enter the password for steve user)

sudo -i

(again enter the password for steve user)

useradd amar -s /sbin/login

refer this link for usernames and passwords for different servers within nautilus.

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