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Article #418removed /etc/nologin on lily
From: jmsellens
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1989 21:31
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1989 21:31
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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.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!jmsellens From: jmsellens@watmath.waterloo.edu Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.software Subject: removed /etc/nologin on lily Message-ID: <29607@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 29 Sep 89 21:31:08 GMT Sender: jmsellens@watmath.waterloo.edu Reply-To: jmsellens@watmath.waterloo.edu Distribution: uw Lines: 12