---
name: "falselogin"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "falselogin"
version: "0.3-4.3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/falselogin"
---

# falselogin(1)

a false login shell

## NAME

falselogin - a false login shell

## SYNOPSIS

**/usr/bin/falselogin**\

## DESCRIPTION

**falselogin** is a small application which can deny the user to log in the system displaying a custom message.

## CONFIGURATION

The configuration file for  **falselogin** is /etc/falselogin.conf. Everything you write into this file will be written at login except for some special strings which will be substituted when they appear in the configuration file. They are:

- **%mail% string**

  Number of mail messages in the user's mailbox.

- **%user% string**

  Username.

- **%sysname% string**

  Sysname from uname. (eg: Linux)

- **%nodename%, %host% strings**

  The hostname. (eg: master)

- **%release% string**

  Linux kernel version number (eg: 2.0.36)

- **%version% string**

  Linux version number (eg: #8 Sun Dec 20 12:02:31 CET 1998)

- **%machine% string**

  Machine type (eg: i686)

- **%debian\_version% string**

  Debian version from /etc/debian\_version

## PARAMETERS

- **--wait, -w waitfor**

  If **waitfor** is a number, falselogin will sleep  **waitfor** seconds before exiting; if  **waitfor** matches the word 'enter' then falselogin will wait for the user to input the 'enter' key

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Tibor Koleszar \<t.koleszar@somogy.hu\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.