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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Apr 4 21:42:42 1995

Date: Tue, 4 Apr 95 21:42:14 -0400
To: "Ethan Michael O'Connor" <zudark@MIT.EDU>
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU, bug-sgi@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[358] in Skunks"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>


> I don't know if this is the right place
> to report this,

The best place is both bug-sgi and hotline. comment-sgi is sufficient,
though...

> but I think someone's deliberately messing w/ the SGI's. Three times
> today I've tried to log in and had the workstation reply "logins
> have been disabled for this machine".  Each time, I then logged in
> as root and looked around, and a "nologin" file had been placed in
> the /etc directory each time. Removing it fixed the problem. Just
> thought I'd let someone know.

Thanks for noticing this! In the future, please let us know which
machines these are (machine number). If you don't remember, were they
in 66 or W20?

> I assume it wasn't an official thing because there were no written
> notes of any sort on the machines.

No. It might also be some bizarre bug, though...

--jhawk
  Not speaking for anyone officially.


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