This account is currently not available

I am getting this error message in lfd.log file saying - "Hostname: This account is currently not available" when I tried to install csf/lfd on my linux system. What is the meaning of this message ? Can anybody explain me or give some ideas regarding this.....thanks

Check the shell in your passwd file, it may be wrong ...... Normally, the shell should be set to /sbin/nologin.

I was also having the same problem in lfd.log file - "Hostname: This account is currently not available"

This indicates the bad hostname and because of this hostname problem, cPanel Licensing couldn't properly check and WHM/cPanel returned the following licensing error screen.

Code:

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root@peblbich[~]# /usr/local/cpanel/cpkeyclt
[Cpanel::Sys]: Unable to determine correct hostname
Updating Internal cPanel Information.....Done
root@peblbich[~]#

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eventhough

Code:

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root@peblbich[~]# vi /etc/hosts
::1            localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1              localhost
111.22.232.111      peblbich peblbich.heplansnoslime.com

root@peblbich[~]# lynx -dump http://www.cpanel.net/showip.cgi

  Your ip is: 111.22.232.111

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To resolve this, I removed the hostname and FQDN from the /etc/hosts file,

Code:

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root@peblbich[~]# vi /etc/hosts

::1            localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1              localhost
111.22.232.111

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and set the hostname:

Code:

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root@peblbich[~]# hostname peblbich.heplansnoslime.com
root@peblbich[~]#

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After this, I edited the hosts file again and added "peblbich" as a hostname in front of the FQDN again; saved and exited.

Now running the cPanel license update returned:

Code:

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root@peblbich[~]# /usr/local/cpanel/cpkeyclt
Updating Internal cPanel Information.....Done
root@peblbich[~]#

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This resolved my both the problems: lfd's hostname error and cPanel's license issue.

I think there might some syntax error which is the common cause of this problem, many users do it. The users are like to type ":/sbin/nologin". With ":/sbin/nologin" , the account is prevented from an interactive login.....Remove ":" from it and change it to "/sbin/nologin"

And also, some users type "su - xxxx". With this, you are trying to use the login shell.......Remove "-" from it and change it to "su xxxx"