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Man Page: nologin

Operating Environment: centos

Section: 8

NOLOGIN(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						NOLOGIN(8)

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 4.4BSD.
BSD
February 15, 1997 BSD
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