nologin(5) [netbsd man page]

NOLOGIN(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual							NOLOGIN(5)

NAME

     nologin -- file disallowing and containing reason for disallowing logins

DESCRIPTION

     The file /etc/nologin, if it exists, causes the login procedure, used by programs such as login(1), to terminate.	The program may display
     the contents of /etc/nologin to the user before exiting.

     This file is a simple mechanism to temporarily prevent incoming logins.  As such, the file /etc/nologin is created by shutdown(8) five min-
     utes before system shutdown, or immediately if shutdown is in less than five minutes.  The file /etc/nologin is removed just before
     shutdown(8) exits.

     To disable logins on a per-account basis, see nologin(8).

     The file /etc/nologin has no affect on the login procedure for the root user.

FILES

     /etc/nologin  The nologin file resides in /etc.

EXAMPLES

     NO LOGINS: System going down at 18:22

SEE ALSO

     login(1), ftpd(8), nologin(8), rshd(8), shutdown(8), sshd(8)

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								 December 9, 2005							       BSD

PAM_NOLOGIN(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					    PAM_NOLOGIN(8)

NAME

     pam_nologin -- NoLogin PAM module

SYNOPSIS

     [service-name] module-type control-flag pam_nologin [options]

DESCRIPTION

     The NoLogin service module for PAM, pam_nologin provides functionality for only one PAM category: account management.  In terms of the
     module-type parameter, this is the ``account'' feature.

   NoLogin Account Management Module
     The NoLogin account management component, pam_sm_acct_mgmt(), verifies whether logins are administratively disabled via nologin(5).  It
     returns success if the user's login class has an "ignorenologin" capability specified in login.conf(5) or the nologin(5) file does not exist.
     If neither condition is met, then the contents of nologin(5) are echoed before failure is returned.  The location of nologin(5) is specified
     by a "nologin" capability in login.conf(5), which defaults to /var/run/nologin.

     The following options may be passed to the module:

     debug    syslog(3) debugging information at LOG_DEBUG level.

     no_warn  suppress warning messages to the user.  These messages include reasons why the user's login attempt was declined.

SEE ALSO

     syslog(3), login.conf(5), nologin(5), pam.conf(5), pam(8)

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								   June 10, 2007							       BSD