[11404] in Athena Bugs
login program
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Haynes)
Sat Nov 20 17:26:27 1993
From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1993 14:26:02 -0800
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
This showed up at UCSC, and since the one at UCSC is derived from the one at
MIT it is probably in the one at MIT also.
The test for existence of /etc/nlogin is rather late in the process.
I was working on a time sharing server (cf. dialup server) and had created
/etc/nologin, and noticed that users were trying to log in and that
their lockers kept getting attached and they kept getting edited into
the passwd file even tho they were not allowed to log in. I could have
prevented that by also creating noattach and nocreate; but it would make
more sense to have the test for nologin earlier in the process.
