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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:

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

Manual page search:

Authen::SASL::Perl::LOGIN(3pm) Authen::SASL::Perl::PLAIN(3pm) access.conf(5)
add-shell(8) apt_auth.conf(5) buildah-login(1)
chsh(1) chsh.ldap(1) getlogin(3)
getlogin_r(3) git-shell(1) issue(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) npm-login(1)
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) podman-login(1)
podmansh(1) 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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