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NOLOGIN(8) System Management Commands NOLOGIN(8)
nologin - politely refuse a login
nologin
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.
login(1), nologin(5).
The nologin command appeared in BSD 4.4.
This page is part of the shadow-utils (utilities for managing
accounts and shadow password files) project. Information about
the project can be found at
⟨https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow⟩. If you have a bug report
for this manual page, send it to
pkg-shadow-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net. This page was obtained
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