Not every account is for a person. Services such as web servers, databases and backup jobs run as their own users so that a compromise of one service does not hand over the whole system. Those accounts should own files and run processes, but nobody should be able to log in as them. Giving them a non-interactive shell is the standard way to enforce that.
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