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NAME

     nologin - prevent unprivileged users from logging into the system

DESCRIPTION

     If  the  file  /etc/nologin exists and is readable, login(1) 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.

FILES

     /etc/nologin

SEE ALSO

     login(1), shutdown(8)

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Linux 2017-09-15 NOLOGIN(5)