DESCRIPTION

     nologin is a login shell for user accounts that have been disabled.  It
     logs the attempted login via the syslog(3) mechanism, with an ident of
     "nologin" and a facility of LOG_AUTH.  Log entries will appear in the
     system log as:

           Jan 28 21:36:54 hostname nologin: user on /dev/ttypX

     If the optional message is specified with -m, it will be printed on the
     terminal, after the username, before the user is disconnected.  Specify-
     ing -m "account not available" and attempting to login to the disabled
     user account "linus" would print the message

           linus: account not available

     on the terminal before exiting.

     Please note that you should not add the nologin program to the
     /etc/shells file, as you do not want users to accidentally set their
     shell to nologin.

AUTHOR

     Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Softweyr LLC.




4th Berkeley Distribution      January 28, 1997      4th Berkeley Distribution