Setup Non-Logon User Account

[MJ West]

Does HP-UX have facilities like Solaris 9/10 to setup/configure a user ID so that it can run processes like cron and allow other authorized users to sudo su to it but does not allow a user to interactively logon with that ID (via ssh, telnet, ftp, etc.)? In solaris this is accomplished by the "passwd -N [userid]" command option.

[Victor Fridyev]

Lock the user's password, put * into password field in /etc/passwd.

HTH

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,
To Lock or Deactivate user account use this below command

passwd -l

Suraj

[Heiner E. Lennackers]

Hi,

another method is to set the users default shell in /etc/passwd to /bin/false.

[Victor Fridyev]

If the user's shell is defined as /bin/false or /bin/nologin, this user will not be able to run cron jobs and "su username" commands