Difference between Interactive and Non Interactive user id's

[Naru]

Hi can someone let me know the difference between the Interactive and
Non Interactive user id's?

per my understanding, interactive id is something which require
access
to SHELL or execute from SHELL.

Thanks,
Naru

[Ben Finney]

Naru <nvu...@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi can someone let me know the difference between the Interactive and
> Non Interactive user id's?

It's not a distinction that I recognise. Where did you hear about it,
and what was the context?

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Ben Finney

[John Gordon]

In <87iqj2a...@benfinney.id.au> Ben Finney <bignose+h...@benfinney.id.au> writes:

> Naru <nvu...@gmail.com> writes:

> > Hi can someone let me know the difference between the Interactive and
> > Non Interactive user id's?

> It's not a distinction that I recognise. Where did you hear about it,
> and what was the context?

Just a guess: it sounds like a distinction between a user that gets a
shell upon login vs a user that gets a non-escapable application program
upon login.

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[Barry Margolin]

In article <h0ruv9$972$1...@reader1.panix.com>,
John Gordon <gor...@panix.com> wrote:

> In <87iqj2a...@benfinney.id.au> Ben Finney
> <bignose+h...@benfinney.id.au> writes:
>
> > Naru <nvu...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > > Hi can someone let me know the difference between the Interactive and
> > > Non Interactive user id's?
>
> > It's not a distinction that I recognise. Where did you hear about it,
> > and what was the context?
>
> Just a guess: it sounds like a distinction between a user that gets a
> shell upon login vs a user that gets a non-escapable application program
> upon login.

I suspect he's thinking of the user id's that are intended to be used
for daemons or setuid applications, not for normal logins by users.

These typically have something like /bin/false as their login shell, and
usually don't have a password set.

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[Ben Finney]

John Gordon <gor...@panix.com> writes:

> In <87iqj2a...@benfinney.id.au> Ben Finney <bignose+h...@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> > Naru <nvu...@gmail.com> writes:
> > > Hi can someone let me know the difference between the Interactive
> > > and Non Interactive user id's?
>
> > It's not a distinction that I recognise. Where did you hear about it,
> > and what was the context?
>
> Just a guess

[…]

Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> I suspect he's thinking of

[…]

In the face of ambiguity, and especially when the person is around to
answer requests for clarification, I prefer to refuse the temptation to
guess.

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Ben Finney

[Barry Margolin]

In article <874oum8...@benfinney.id.au>,
Ben Finney <bignose+h...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:

> John Gordon <gor...@panix.com> writes:
>
> > In <87iqj2a...@benfinney.id.au> Ben Finney
> > <bignose+h...@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> > > Naru <nvu...@gmail.com> writes:
> > > > Hi can someone let me know the difference between the Interactive
> > > > and Non Interactive user id's?
> >
> > > It's not a distinction that I recognise. Where did you hear about it,
> > > and what was the context?
> >
> > Just a guess
> […]
>
>
> Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
> > I suspect he's thinking of
> […]
>
>
> In the face of ambiguity, and especially when the person is around to
> answer requests for clarification, I prefer to refuse the temptation to
> guess.

My experience is that people who ask questions like the OP don't
understand your type of response. It's more helpful to try possible
answers, and if that's not what they're talking about they can clarify.

[Andreas Marschke]

Naru wrote:

If I remember right there is no such thing as InterActive and Non-
InterActive UIDs but you have processes that are spun off on initial
boot that will run as you but arent started by you. Such as (in KDE)
the plasma Desktop shell.