NOLOGIN
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NAME
nologin
- politely refuse a login
SYNOPSIS
nologin
DESCRIPTION
nologin
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.
If the file
/etc/nologin.txt
exists,
nologin
displays its contents to the user instead of the default message.
SEE ALSO
login(1)
HISTORY
The
nologin
command appeared in
BSD 4.4