nologin

Set a user's login shell to nologin to 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

nologin [-V] [-h]

nologin displays a message that an account is not available and exits non-zero. It is intended as a replacement shell field to deny login access to an account.

If the file /etc/nologin.txt exists, nologin displays its contents to the user instead of the default message.

The exit code returned by nologin is always 1.

" -h, --help " Display help text and exit.

" -V,--version" Display version information and exit.

nologin is a per-account way to disable login (usually used for system accounts like http or ftp). nologin(8) uses /etc/nologin.txt as an optional source for a non-default message, the login access is always refused independently of the file.

pam_nologin(8) PAM module usually prevents all non-root users from logging into the system. pam_nologin(8) functionality is controlled by /var/run/nologin or the /etc/nologin file.

kzak@redhat.com Karel Zak

The nologin command appeared in 4.4BSD.

The nologin command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https:// www.kernel.org /pub /linux /utils /util-linux/ Linux Kernel Archive .

login(1), passwd(5), pam_nologin(8)