NOLOGIN(8) BSD System Manager's Manual NOLOGIN(8)NAMEnologin — politely refuse a login
SYNOPSISnologinDESCRIPTIONnologin displays a message that an account is not available and returns a
non-zero exit code. It is intended as a replacement shell field for
accounts that have been disabled.
SEE ALSOlogin(1)HISTORY
The nologin command appeared in 4.4BSD, a free re-implementation was con‐
tributed in NetBSD 1.5 by Hubert Feyrer to avoid bloat through the copy‐
right comment.
BSD June 19, 1993 BSD