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NOLOGIN(8) System Management Commands NOLOGIN(8)

NAME

nologin - politely refuse a login

SYNOPSIS

nologin

DESCRIPTION

The nologin command displays a message that an account is not available and exits non-zero. It is intended as a replacement shell field for accounts that have been disabled.

To disable all logins, investigate nologin(5).

SEE ALSO

login(1), nologin(5).

HISTORY

The nologin command appeared in BSD 4.4.
05/17/2017 shadow-utils 4.4