NAME¶

nologin — politely refuse a login

SYNOPSIS¶

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.