Preventing users from loggin into a unix box

From: Ram Meenakshisundaram <rmeenaks_at_olf.com>
Date: Thu Apr 19 16:50:10 2001

Gene Buckle wrote:

> do a touch /etc/nologin
>
> g.
>
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a Solaris 2.6 Ultra-10 at work and I want to prevent users from logging into my machine. I dont want
> > to run in single-user mode. Is there a way to disable rlogin or telnet over to my machine?
> >
> > Ram
> >

This wont work as nologin is just a message file (similar to motd) whenever the system is about to shutdown.

Ram

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