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Package: login

Description: system login tools
This package provides some required infrastructure for logins and for changing effective user or group IDs, including:
 * login, the program that invokes a user shell on a virtual terminal;
 * nologin, a dummy shell for disabled user accounts;
Homepage: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow
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Manual pages:

login(1) newgrp(1) sg(1)
faillog(5) login.defs(5) faillog(8)
lastlog(8) nologin(8)

Other documents:

/usr/share/doc/login

Other packages built from the same source:

passwd

Manual page search:

access.conf(5) add-shell(8) apt_auth.conf(5)
byobu-disable(1) byobu-enable(1) chsh(1)
faillog(5) faillog(8) getlogin(3)
getlogin_r(3) git-shell(1) issue(5)
lastlog(8) login(1) login(3)
login.defs(5) login_tty(3) loginctl(1)
logind.conf(5) logind.conf.d(5) logname(1)
lslogins(1) nologin(5) nologin(8)
org.freedesktop.login1(5) pam_access(8) pam_loginuid(8)
pam_nologin(8) pam_securetty(8) pam_sepermit(8)
pam_shells(8) pam_systemd(8) remove-shell(8)
rrsync(1) securetty(5) shells(5)
slogin(1) ssh(1) ssh-copy-id(1)
sulogin(8) systemd-logind(8) systemd-logind.service(8)
systemd-user-sessions(8) systemd-user-sessions.service(8) update-shells(8)
utmp(5) utmpx(5) wtmp(5)

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