removed /etc/nologin on lily

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3 total messages Started by jmsellens Fri, 29 Sep 1989 21:30

#163

Author: jmsellens
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1989 21:30

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From: John M Sellens <jmsellens>

It was empty, dated Sept 13, seemed to be preventing logins.
I went looking for the Sun login source. On orchid I looked at
/usr/source/longnames/_bin/login/login.c and /usr/src/bin/login.c
- both only allow root logins if /etc/nologins exists.
Maybe /bin/login got rdisted from somewhere else and killed the one
on lily that allowed us in?  /etc/nologins should not have been
empty in any case.  But Guy says that lily would still let him in
and so I don't understand why.  I don't know which login we were
actually using - it pointed to the longnames package.  I couldn't
find anything weird in the passwd file.

Re: removed /etc/nologin on lily

#173

Author: Andy Wai
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1989 15:54

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In article <29606@watmath.waterloo.edu> jmsellens@watmath.waterloo.edu writes:
>From: John M Sellens <jmsellens>
>
>[...]
>Maybe /bin/login got rdisted from somewhere else and killed the one
>on lily that allowed us in?  /etc/nologins should not have been
>empty in any case.  But Guy says that lily would still let him in
>and so I don't understand why.  [...]

I put the nologin back and lily no longer allow me to login.  Presumably,
something erase the old /bin/login.  Anyway, taking out the /etc/nologin
is bad news, so I took the source under orchid:/usr/source/longnames and
put in the operator hack (4 lines of change).

The new login is installed under /usr/bin as a real file, and the source
is still on my lily account.  This is only temporary.  I'll do the real
installation Monday.

Andy

Re: removed /etc/nologin on lily

#176

Author: John M. Sellens
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1989 00:08

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In article <549@maytag.waterloo.edu> accwai@maytag.waterloo.edu (Andy Wai) writes:
>I put the nologin back and lily no longer allow me to login.  Presumably,
>something erase the old /bin/login.  Anyway, taking out the /etc/nologin
>is bad news, so I took the source under orchid:/usr/source/longnames and
>put in the operator hack (4 lines of change).
It should probably print the /etc/nologin file whether or not it's about
to let you in.  I just tried it and I didn't see the contents of /etc/nologin.

>The new login is installed under /usr/bin as a real file, and the source
>is still on my lily account.  This is only temporary.  I'll do the real
>installation Monday.

So if the longnames package was distributed from orchid, then this new
login program would get clobbered and stuck in vendor and we'd be back
not being able to login.  Bad idea.

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