Install Nownologin - prevent unprivileged users from logging into the system
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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
Name
nologin - prevent unprivileged users from logging into the system
See Also
login(1), shutdown(8)
Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 nologin(5)
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