nologin - prevent unprivileged users from logging into the system
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.
/etc/nologin
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