netbsd man page for nologin

Query: nologin

OS: netbsd

Section: 8

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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 returns a non-zero exit code. It is intended as a replacement shell field for accounts that have been disabled.
SEE ALSO
login(1)
HISTORY
The nologin command appeared in 4.4BSD, a free re-implementation was contributed in NetBSD 1.5 by Hubert Feyrer to avoid bloat through the copyright comment.
BSD
June 19, 1993 BSD
Related Man Pages
nologin(5) - freebsd
nologin(5) - netbsd
nologin(5) - osx
pam_nologin(8) - hpux
pam_nologin(8) - sunos
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