NAME
nologin —
politely refuse a login
SYNOPSIS
nologin |
DESCRIPTION
Thenologin 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
HISTORY
The nologin utility appeared in
4.4BSD.