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.\" @(#)nologin.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/19/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.Dd April 15, 2020
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.Dt NOLOGIN 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm nologin
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.Nd politely refuse a login
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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is intended as a replacement shell field for accounts that
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have been disabled.
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.Pp
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When executed,
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.Nm
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first writes about the login attempt to
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.Xr syslog 3
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and then displays a message that an account is not available.
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.Pp
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To disable all logins,
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investigate
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.Xr nologin 5 .
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.Sh EXIT STATUS
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The
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.Nm
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utility always exits non-zero.
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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Here is a demonstration of executing
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.Nm :
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.Bd -literal -offset 4n
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$ nologin
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This account is currently not available.
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$ tail -n 1 /var/log/messages
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Mar 30 21:53:07 example.org nologin[65992]: Attempted login by beastie on /dev/pts/18
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.Ed
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr login 1 ,
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.Xr nologin 5
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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utility appeared in
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.Bx 4.4 .
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