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.\" Modified Sun Jul 25 11:06:34 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.\" Corrected Mon Oct 21 17:47:19 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
-.TH NOLOGIN 5 2012-04-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH NOLOGIN 5 2017-09-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
nologin \- prevent unprivileged users from logging into the system
.SH DESCRIPTION
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.
.SH FILES
-/etc/nologin
+.I /etc/nologin
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR login (1),
.BR shutdown (8)