NAME¶

nologin - politely refuse a login

SYNOPSIS¶

nologin

DESCRIPTION¶

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).

If SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND is populated it will be logged.

SEE ALSO¶

login(1), nologin(5).

HISTORY¶

The nologin command appeared in BSD 4.4.