Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 10:04:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-12@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r363554 - stable/12/usr.sbin/nologin Message-ID: <202007261004.06QA43ni025663@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: 0mp (doc,ports committer) Date: Sun Jul 26 10:04:02 2020 New Revision: 363554 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/363554 Log: MFC 359967: Document the exit status and the stdout message of nologin(8) Reviewed by: debdrup (earlier version) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24196 Modified: stable/12/usr.sbin/nologin/nologin.8 Directory Properties: stable/12/ (props changed) Modified: stable/12/usr.sbin/nologin/nologin.8 ============================================================================== --- stable/12/usr.sbin/nologin/nologin.8 Sun Jul 26 10:01:27 2020 (r363553) +++ stable/12/usr.sbin/nologin/nologin.8 Sun Jul 26 10:04:02 2020 (r363554) @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)nologin.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/19/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 19, 1993 +.Dd April 15, 2020 .Dt NOLOGIN 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -39,14 +39,31 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm -utility displays a message that an account is not available and -exits non-zero. -It is intended as a replacement shell field for accounts that +is intended as a replacement shell field for accounts that have been disabled. .Pp +When executed, +.Nm +first writes about the login attempt to +.Xr syslog 3 +and then a displays a message that an account is not available. +.Pp To disable all logins, investigate .Xr nologin 5 . +.Sh EXIT STATUS +The +.Nm +utility always exits non-zero. +.Sh EXAMPLES +Here is a demonstration of executing +.Nm : +.Bd -literal -offset 4n +$ nologin +This account is currently not available. +$ tail -n 1 /var/log/messages +Mar 30 21:53:07 example.org nologin[65992]: Attempted login by beastie on /dev/pts/18 +.Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr login 1 , .Xr nologin 5
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