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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;
 * su, a basic tool for executing commands as root or another user.
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:

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) db.login(1grass) docker-login(1)
faillog(5) faillog(8) getlogin(3)
getlogin_r(3) git-shell(1) gnome-session-properties(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) mate-session-properties(1)
mlx5dv_crypto_login(3) mlx5dv_crypto_login_query_state(3) mlx5dv_crypto_logout(3)
nologin(5) nologin(8) org.freedesktop.login1(5)
pam_access(8) pam_lastlog(8) pam_loginuid(8)
pam_nologin(8) pam_securetty(8) pam_sepermit(8)
pam_shells(8) pam_systemd(8) remove-shell(8)
rlogin(1) rrsync(1) rsh(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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