nologin
Alternative shell that prevents a user from logging in. More information: https://manned.org/nologin.5.
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Set a user's login shell to
nologinto prevent the user from logging in:
chsh -s {{user}} nologin -
Customize message for users with the login shell of
nologin:
echo "{{declined_login_message}}" > /etc/nologin.txt
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