falselogin1
A false login shell
Usage
/usr/bin/falselogin
Overview
falselogin is a small application which can deny the user to log in the system displaying a custom message.
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_version |
Parameters
- --wait, -w waitfor
-
If
waitforis a number, falselogin will sleepwaitforseconds before exiting; ifwaitformatches the word 'enter' then falselogin will wait for the user to input the 'enter' key
Releases
13 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 2 times.