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authorKarel Zak2013-09-30 13:36:26 +0200
committerKarel Zak2013-09-30 13:36:26 +0200
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nologin: add new command
Currently it's maintained as distro specific (or people use impolite /bin/false way). Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'login-utils')
-rw-r--r--login-utils/Makemodule.am7
-rw-r--r--login-utils/nologin.853
-rw-r--r--login-utils/nologin.c75
3 files changed, 135 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/login-utils/Makemodule.am b/login-utils/Makemodule.am
index c5e8c07ae..aca028a29 100644
--- a/login-utils/Makemodule.am
+++ b/login-utils/Makemodule.am
@@ -60,6 +60,13 @@ endif
endif # BUILD_LOGIN
+if BUILD_NOLOGIN
+sbin_PROGRAMS += nologin
+dist_man_MANS += login-utils/nologin.8
+nologin_SOURCES = login-utils/nologin.c
+endif
+
+
if BUILD_UTMPDUMP
usrbin_exec_PROGRAMS += utmpdump
dist_man_MANS += login-utils/utmpdump.1
diff --git a/login-utils/nologin.8 b/login-utils/nologin.8
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b4e10704e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/login-utils/nologin.8
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+.\" -*- nroff -*-
+.TH NOLOGIN 8 "September 2013" "util-linux" "System Administration"
+.SH NAME
+nologin \- politely refuse a login
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B nologin
+.RB [ \-V ]
+.RB [ \-h ]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B nologin
+displays a message that an account is not available and exits non-zero. It is
+intended as a replacement shell field to deny login access to account.
+.PP
+If the file /etc/nologin.txt exists, nologin displays its contents to the
+user instead of the default message.
+.PP
+The exit code returned by
+.B nologin
+is always 1.
+.PP
+.SH OPTIONS
+.IP "\fB\-h, \-\-help\fP"
+Print help and exit.
+.IP "\fB-V, \-\-version"
+Print version and exit.
+.SH NOTES
+.B nologin
+is per-account way to disable login (usually used for system accounts like http or ftp).
+.BR nologin (8)
+uses /etc/nologin.txt as optional source for non-default message, the login
+access is always refused independently on the file.
+.PP
+.BR pam_nologin (8)
+PAM module usually prevents all non-root users from logging into the system.
+.BR pam_nologin (8)
+functionality is controled by /var/run/nologin or /etc/nologin file.
+.SH AUTHORS
+.UR kzak@redhat.com
+Karel Zak
+.UE
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR login (1),
+.BR passwd (5),
+.BR pam_nologin (8)
+.SH HISTORY
+The
+.B nologin
+command appeared in 4.4BSD.
+.SH AVAILABILITY
+The nologin command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
+.UR ftp://\:ftp.kernel.org\:/pub\:/linux\:/utils\:/util-linux/
+Linux Kernel Archive
+.UE .
diff --git a/login-utils/nologin.c b/login-utils/nologin.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a4fb82db6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/login-utils/nologin.c
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2013 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <getopt.h>
+
+#include "c.h"
+#include "nls.h"
+#include "pathnames.h"
+
+/*
+ * Always return EXIT_FAILURE (1), don't try to be smart!
+ */
+
+static void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(FILE *out)
+{
+ fputs(USAGE_HEADER, out);
+
+ fprintf(out,
+ _(" %s [options]\n"), program_invocation_short_name);
+
+ fputs(USAGE_OPTIONS, out);
+ fputs(USAGE_HELP, out);
+ fputs(USAGE_VERSION, out);
+
+ fprintf(out, USAGE_MAN_TAIL("nologin(8)"));
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+ int c, fd;
+ static const struct option longopts[] = {
+ { "help", 0, 0, 'h' },
+ { "version", 0, 0, 'V' },
+ { NULL, 0, 0, 0 }
+ };
+
+ setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
+ bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
+ textdomain(PACKAGE);
+
+ while ((c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "hV", longopts, NULL)) != -1) {
+ switch (c) {
+ case 'h':
+ usage(stdout);
+ break;
+ case 'V':
+ printf(UTIL_LINUX_VERSION);
+ return EXIT_FAILURE;
+ default:
+ usage(stderr);
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ fd = open(_PATH_NOLOGIN_TXT, O_RDONLY);
+ if (fd >= 0) {
+ char buf[BUFSIZ];
+ ssize_t rd;
+
+ while ((rd = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf))) > 0)
+ ignore_result( write(STDOUT_FILENO, buf, rd) );
+ close(fd);
+ } else
+ fprintf(stdout, _("This account is currently not available.\n"));
+
+ return EXIT_FAILURE;
+}