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nologin (8) Linux Manual Page

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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).

If SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND is populated it will be logged.

See Also

login(1), nologin(5).

History

The nologin command appeared in BSD 4.4.

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