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NOLOGIN(8) System Management Commands NOLOGIN(8)
nologin - politely refuse a login
nologin
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).
login(1), nologin(5).
The nologin command appeared in BSD 4.4.
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