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Name

nologin - prevent unprivileged users from logging into the system

Description

If the file /etc/nologin exists and is readable, login(1) will allow access only to root. Other users will be shown the contents of this file and their logins will be refused. This provides a simple way of temporarily disabling all unprivileged logins.

Files

/etc/nologin

See Also

  1. login(1),
  2. shutdown(8)

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