June 19, 1993 NOLOGIN 8

### NAME

nologin - politely refuse a login

### SYNOPSIS

nologin

### DESCRIPTION

nologin displays a message that an account is not available and returns a non-zero exit code. It is intended as a replacement shell field for accounts that have been disabled.

### SEE ALSO

login(1)

### HISTORY

The nologin command appeared in 4.4BSD, a free re-implementation was contributed in NetBSD1.5 by Hubert Feyrer to avoid bloat through the copyright comment.