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NOLOGIN(8)              OpenBSD System Manager's Manual             NOLOGIN(8)

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
     login(1)

HISTORY
     The nologin command appeared in 4.4BSD.

OpenBSD 2.3                    Febuary 15, 1997                              1

Source: OpenBSD 2.6 man pages. Copyright: Portions are copyrighted by BERKELEY
SOFTWARE DESIGN, INC., The Regents of the University of California, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Free Software Foundation, FreeBSD Inc., and others.

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