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	.\" @(#)nologin.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/19/93			.\" @(#)nologin.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/19/93
	.\" $FreeBSD$			.\" $FreeBSD$
	.\"			.\"
	.Dd June 19, 1993			.Dd April 15, 2020
	.Dt NOLOGIN 8			.Dt NOLOGIN 8
	.Os			.Os
	.Sh NAME			.Sh NAME
	.Nm nologin			.Nm nologin
	.Nd politely refuse a login			.Nd politely refuse a login
	.Sh SYNOPSIS			.Sh SYNOPSIS
	.Nm			.Nm
	.Sh DESCRIPTION			.Sh DESCRIPTION
	The			The
	.Nm			.Nm
	utility displays a message that an account is not available and			is intended as a replacement shell field for accounts that
	exits non-zero.
	It is intended as a replacement shell field for accounts that
	have been disabled.			have been disabled.
	.Pp			.Pp
				When executed,
				.Nm
				first writes about the login attempt to
				yuripvUnsubmitted Not Done Inline Actions I'm late to the party as always, just noticed the MFC commit, but anyway. This sentence sounds somewhat broken to me, you don't write to a function, rather log something using syslog(3)? yuripv: I'm late to the party as always, just noticed the MFC commit, but anyway. This sentence sounds…
				.Xr syslog 3
				and then a displays a message that an account is not available.
				yuripvUnsubmitted Not Done Inline Actions Erroneous 'a' after 'then'. yuripv: Erroneous 'a' after 'then'.
				.Pp
	To disable all logins,			To disable all logins,
	investigate			investigate
	.Xr nologin 5 .			.Xr nologin 5 .
				.Sh EXIT STATUS
				The
				.Nm
				utility always exits non-zero.
				.Sh EXAMPLES
				Here is a demonstration of executing
				.Nm :
				.Bd -literal -offset 4n
				$ nologin
				This account is currently not available.
				$ tail -n 1 /var/log/messages
				Mar 30 21:53:07 example.org nologin[65992]: Attempted login by beastie on /dev/pts/18
				.Ed
	.Sh SEE ALSO			.Sh SEE ALSO
	.Xr login 1 ,			.Xr login 1 ,
	.Xr nologin 5			.Xr nologin 5
	.Sh HISTORY			.Sh HISTORY
	The			The
	.Nm			.Nm
	utility appeared in			utility appeared in
	.Bx 4.4 .			.Bx 4.4 .