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
HISTORY
The nologin command appeared in 4.4BSD.