Re: awstats problem

[Peter Wiersig <peter@friesenpeter.de>]

Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> writes:
Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 11:48:46AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> root@coyote:~$ su www-data
>> This account is currently not available.
>
> If you want a shell as a system account, use sudo instead.
>
> sudo -s -u www-data

or set the shell using su:
su -s /bin/bash -u www-data

This behaviour is caused due to the shell in /etc/passwd:

$ getent passwd www-data
www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/usr/sbin/nologin

Peter