NOLOGIN(8) System Manager's Manual NOLOGIN(8) NAME nologin -- politely refuse a login SYNOPSIS nologin DESCRIPTION The nologin is intended as a replacement shell field for accounts that have been disabled. When executed, nologin first writes about the login attempt to syslog(3) and then displays a message that an account is not available. To disable all logins, investigate nologin(5). EXIT STATUS The nologin utility always exits non-zero. EXAMPLES Here is a demonstration of executing nologin: $ nologin This account is currently not available. $ tail -n 1 /var/log/messages Mar 30 21:53:07 example.org nologin[65992]: Attempted login by beastie on /dev/pts/18 SEE ALSO login(1), nologin(5) HISTORY The nologin utility appeared in 4.4BSD. FreeBSD 15.1 April 15, 2020 NOLOGIN(8)
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