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NOLOGIN(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual NOLOGIN(8)
NAME
nologin - politely refuse a login
SYNOPSIS
nologin
DESCRIPTION
The nologin 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
login(1), nologin(5)
HISTORY
The nologin utility appeared in 4.4BSD.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 April 15, 2020 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11