| 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).
If SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND is populated it will be logged.
The nologin command appeared in BSD 4.4.
| 03/23/2023 | shadow-utils 4.13 |