nologin - politely refuse a login

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  SEE ALSO  HISTORY 

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NAME

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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