nologin(8) — Linux manual page

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | SEE ALSO | HISTORY | COLOPHON

NOLOGIN(8)               System Management Commands               NOLOGIN(8)

NAME top

       nologin - politely refuse a login

SYNOPSIS top

       nologin

DESCRIPTION top

       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 top

       login(1), nologin(5).

HISTORY top

       The nologin command appeared in BSD 4.4.

COLOPHON top

       This page is part of the shadow-utils (utilities for managing
       accounts and shadow password files) project.  Information about the
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shadow-utils 4.8.1               08/13/2020                       NOLOGIN(8)