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NOLOGIN

Section: System Management Commands (8)
Updated: 09/12/2012
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NAME

nologin - politely refuse a login

SYNOPSIS

nologin

DESCRIPTION

The nologin command 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.

To disable all logins, investigate nologin(5).

HISTORY

The nologin command appearred in BSD 4.4.

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