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
HISTORY
The nologin utility appeared in 4.4BSD.