nologin - Man Page

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)

Referenced By

pam_nologin(8).

2024-05-02 Linux man-pages 6.9.1