NAME

nologin — politely refuse a login

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The nologin is intended as a replacement shell field for accounts that have been disabled.

When executed, nologin first writes about the login attempt to syslog(3) and then displays a message that an account is not available.

To disable all logins, investigate nologin(5).

EXIT STATUS

The nologin utility always exits non-zero.

SEE ALSO

login(1), nologin(5)

HISTORY

The nologin utility appeared in 4.4BSD.