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Package: login

Description: system login tools
This package provides support for console-based 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,
 * newgrp, a program to change the effective group IDs.
Homepage: https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux
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Manual pages:

login(1) newgrp(1) sg(1)
nologin(8)

Other documents:

/usr/share/doc/login

Other packages built from the same source:

libfdisk1 liblastlog2-2 libmount1 libsmartcols1 libuuid1
mount util-linux util-linux-locales uuid-runtime bsdutils
eject fdisk bsdextrautils libblkid1

Manual page search:

.k5login(5) Authen::SASL::Perl::LOGIN(3pm) Authen::SASL::Perl::PLAIN(3pm)
CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS(3) access.conf(5) add-shell(8)
apt_auth.conf(5) chsh(1) getlogin(3)
getlogin_r(3) git-shell(1) issue(5)
k5login(5) 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)
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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