NOLOGINMSG(8) BSD System Manager's Manual NOLOGINMSG(8)NAMEnologinmsg — politely refuse a login
SYNOPSISnologinmsgDESCRIPTION
Nologinmsg displays a message that an account is not availavle and exits
non-zero. It is intended as a replacement shell field for accounts that
have been disabled. It can also print per-user messages, or special mes‐
sages, depending on how it is called, or whether it can find a better
message to print.
To create a per-user message, put the text of the message in
/usr/local/etc/nologinmsgs/USER file. Its contents will be printed if the
user names USER logs in.
To create a message that can be used for a group of users, create a sym‐
bolic link to a new name for the binary, and use that name. In the
/usr/local/etc/nologinmsgs/ directory, place a text file of the same
name, with the text you want printed when a user with this shell name
logs in.
If the program name is not nologinmsg, then that file name is checked,
and printed if that exists. If it does not, then the standard error is
printed. If the program name is nologinmsg, and a user named file exists
then that file is printed if possible, if not, the standard error message
exists. In all other cases, the standard message is printed.
To disable all logins, investigage nologin(5).
SEE ALSOlogin(1)nologin(5)nologin(8)HISTORY
The nologinmsg command was written by Richard Rose and contributed to the
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BSD July 8, 2002 BSD
