]> Nicolas François nicolas.francois@centraliens.net shadow-utils maintainer, 2007 - now nologin 8 System Management Commands shadow-utils &SHADOW_UTILS_VERSION; nologin politely refuse a login nologin DESCRIPTION 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 nologin5 . If SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND is populated it will be logged. SEE ALSO login1 , nologin5 . HISTORY The nologin command appeared in BSD 4.4.