Bug 1369979

Summary: user accounts created by shadow-utils-4.3.1 cannot be used ('This account is currently not available')
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Adam Williamson <awilliam>
Component: shadow-utilsAssignee: Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Last Closed: 2016-08-25 11:16:00 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Adam Williamson 2016-08-24 23:12:29 UTC 
If I create a user account:

[root@localhost ~]# useradd -U -G wheel -d /home/test3 -m -c test3 test3

with shadow-utils 4.3.1-1.fc26, I cannot use it:

[root@localhost ~]# su test3
This account is currently not available.

but if I do the same with shadow-utils 4.2.1-11.fc25:

[root@localhost ~]# useradd -U -G wheel -d /home/test2 -m -c test2 test2

it works fine:

[root@localhost ~]# su test2
[test2@localhost root]$ 

This is how anaconda creates user accounts, so a consequence of this is that you cannot log in as any account created by anaconda. This breaks most openQA tests at present (as they tend to try and log in as a regular user after boot).

The offending build isn't in F25, fortunately...
Comment 1 Adam Williamson 2016-08-24 23:15:25 UTC 
it seems that 4.3.1 sets the user's shell as /sbin/nologin , while 4.2.1 sets it as /bin/bash .
Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2016-08-24 23:16:42 UTC 
'man useradd' claims the default shell is whatever's specified as SHELL= in /etc/default/useradd , but that file says:

SHELL=/bin/bash

i.e. it's not the file that's at fault, it's useradd's reading of it or something.