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24 | .\" |
| 25 | .\" Modified Sun Jul 25 11:06:34 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) | |
| 26 | .\" Corrected Mon Oct 21 17:47:19 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com) | |
| 4b8c67d9 | 27 | .TH NOLOGIN 5 2017-09-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
| fea681da | 28 | .SH NAME |
| 00b08db3 | 29 | nologin \- prevent unprivileged users from logging into the system |
| fea681da | 30 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 486fccf2 | 31 | If the file \fI/etc/nologin\fP exists and is readable, |
| fea681da | 32 | .BR login (1) |
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33 | will allow access only to root. |
| 34 | Other users will | |
| fea681da | 35 | be shown the contents of this file and their logins will be refused. |
| 0fd98a89 | 36 | This provides a simple way of temporarily disabling all unprivileged logins. |
| fea681da | 37 | .SH FILES |
| 9d9f49e3 | 38 | .I /etc/nologin |
| 47297adb | 39 | .SH SEE ALSO |
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40 | .BR login (1), |
| 41 | .BR shutdown (8) |