NAME | DESCRIPTION | FILES | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

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NOLOGIN(5)                    Linux Programmer's Manual                    NOLOGIN(5)

NAME         top

       nologin - prevent unprivileged users from logging into the system

DESCRIPTION         top

       If the file /etc/nologin exists, login(1) will allow access only to root.
       Other users will be shown the contents of this file and their logins will be
       refused.

FILES         top

       /etc/nologin

SEE ALSO         top

       login(1), shutdown(8)

COLOPHON         top

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Linux                                 1992-12-29                           NOLOGIN(5)

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