FALSELOGIN(1)
π FALSELOGIN β a false login shell π
okay bestie, so this is the manual page for falselogin, from section 1 of the General Commands Manual (that's the "user commands" girlies, iykyk) π«Ά
β¨ NAME β¨
falselogin β a false login shell π
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
/usr/bin/falselogin
π¦ DESCRIPTION π¦
so falselogin is literally this tiny little application that can deny the user to log in the system while showing them a custom message of your choosing. it's giving "no entry, but make it aesthetic" π«β¨
π CONFIGURATION π
the config file for falselogin lives at /etc/falselogin.conf β that's its home, its main character address π π
Everything you write into that file gets written at login, periodt. except for a few special strings that get substituted whenever they show up in the config file. here's the full roster, no skips:
%mail%string β the number of mail messages sitting in the user's mailbox π¬%user%string β the username π§%sysname%string β the sysname fromuname. (eg:Linux)%nodename%,%host%strings β the hostname. (eg:master)%release%string β Linux kernel version number (eg:2.0.36)%version%string β Linux version number (eg:#8 Sun Dec 20 12:02:31 CET 1998)%machine%string β machine type (eg:i686)%debian_version%string β Debian version from/etc/debian_version
π PARAMETERS π
--wait,-wwaitfor β if waitfor is a number,falseloginwill sleep for waitfor seconds before exiting π΄; if waitfor matches the wordenter, thenfalseloginwill wait for the user to input theenterkey ββ¨
π AUTHOR π
this manual page was written by Tibor Koleszar <t.koleszar@somogy.hu>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system π§π«Ά
and that's the whole vibe, bestie β this was the FALSELOGIN(1) page from the General Commands Manual, a Debian GNU/Linux situation, authored by Tibor Koleszar. slay, go deny some logins responsibly πππ
π¦ where this page comes from
- debian bookworm: falselogin 0.3-4.1
- debian trixie: falselogin 0.3-4.3 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu jammy: falselogin 0.3-4build1
- ubuntu noble: falselogin 0.3-4.1
- ubuntu questing: falselogin 0.3-4.3
- ubuntu resolute: falselogin 0.3-4.3build1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu stonking: falselogin 0.3-5 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
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