falselogin - a false login shell
Contents
Configuration
The configuration file for falselogin is /etc/falselogin.conf. Everything you write into this file will
be written at login except for some special strings which will be substituted when they appear in the
configuration file. They are:
%mail%string
Number of mail messages in the user's mailbox.
%user%string
Username.
%sysname%string
Sysname from uname. (eg: Linux)
%nodename%,%host%strings
The hostname. (eg: master)
%release%string
Linux kernel version number (eg: 2.0.36)
%version%string
Linux version number (eg: #8 Sun Dec 20 12:02:31 CET 1998)
%machine%string
Machine type (eg: i686)
%debian_version%string
Debian version from /etc/debian_versionDescription
falselogin is a small application which can deny the user to log in the system displaying a custom
message.
Name
falselogin - a false login shell
Parameters
--wait,-wwaitfor
If waitfor is a number, falselogin will sleep waitfor seconds before exiting; if waitfor matches
the word 'enter' then falselogin will wait for the user to input the 'enter' key
Synopsis
/usr/bin/falselogin
