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NAME¶
nologin - prevent unprivileged users from logging into the system
DESCRIPTION¶
If the file /etc/nologin exists and is readable, login(1) will allow access only to root. Other users will be shown the contents of this file and their logins will be refused. This provides a simple way of temporarily disabling all unprivileged logins.
FILES¶
/etc/nologin
SEE ALSO¶
| 2022-10-30 | Linux man-pages 6.04 |