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Re: bug in login in Colgate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Levente Farkas)
Thu Oct 24 19:44:39 1996
In-Reply-To: <9610242329.AA04146@sol.cc.u-szeged.hu>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 01:39:52 +0100 (MET)
From: Levente Farkas <lfarkas@u-szeged.hu>
To: Wierdl Mate <matyi@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu>
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
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On 24-Oct-96 Wierdl Mate wrote:
>>> Hello,
>> >>From the "man login"
>> If the user is not root, and if /etc/nologin exists, the
>> contents of of this file are printed to the screen, and
>> the login is terminated. This is typically used to pre-
>> vent logins when the system is being taken down.
>>
>> it is wworks on old linux but not on Colgate!!! (nologin exist
>> and normal user can get in).
>>
>
>This is interesting: For me, completely the opposite: I do not have
>/etc/nologin, I login at tty2 (listed in /etc/securetty) as a user,
>then I try `login'. The `login:' prompt flashes for a second, then it
>disappears and, to my astonishment, I find myself logged out!
>
>The same happens if I login as root!
>
>All this in runlevel 5.
I forgot to mention that happend with me too!
-- Levente
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