Hi
I am facing couple issues with adding new administrative users in esxi
I used the useradd command to add the user but it seems like the user is not getting added to the root group
useradd -d /home/$ADMIN_USER -c $USER_DESCRIPTION -s /bin/ash -g "root" -n $ADMIN_USER
I used the groupadd which worked. Is this the expected sequence or am i missing something in useradd?
Second issue is for the new user if I use vSphere to modify the password, the shell "/bin/ash" is replaced by ''/sbin/nologin" and I can no longer log into the shell.
Am I supposed to specify some additional options when I create the user to ensure this is preserverd.
Thanks
Hi
Thanks for your reply.
groupadd seems to accomplish the adding to group as well so I assume just useradd alone is not sufficient.
This still does not resolve the issue of the shell for the new user changing to /sbin/nologin on restart
Your problem in the Knowledge Base:
KB Article: 1029178