NOLOGIN(5) Linux Programmer's Manual NOLOGIN(5)

nologin - prevent non-root users from logging into the system

If the file /etc/nologin exists, login(1) will allow access only to root. Other users will be shown the contents of this file and their logins will be refused.

/etc/nologin

login(1), shutdown(8)

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1992-12-29 Linux

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