[3736] in testers
Navigating the AL manpage tree
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Jul 8 09:40:47 1998
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 09:40:00 -0400
To: testers@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
I wanted to readup on /etc/nocreate files, as a method
of restricting access from xlogin.
I started out with the xlogin manpage, and this was the
shortest path I could find to what I needed:
xlogin -> dm -> al_acct_revert -> al_acct_create -> al_login_allowed
This seems to be pushing the bounds of reason just a little much :-)
Perhaps some more cross-referencing could be added?
I don't know if FILES section references to nocreate, etc., would
be appropriate in the xlogin, login, and telnetd manpages themselves.
I think they certainly belong in al_login_allowed(3), however, where
they presently don't exist (but rather the DESCRIPTION section
discusses /etc/nocreate, /etc/nologin).
--jhawk
