On Apr 19, 17:50, Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote:
> Gene Buckle wrote:
>
> > do a touch /etc/nologin
> This wont work as nologin is just a message file (similar to motd)
whenever the system is about to shutdown.
That's not what it's "supposed" to do -- it's supposed to be checked by
'login' and if it exists, cause login to refuse to accept the remote login,
and print the contents (if any).
Some versions of Solaris don't honour that, though :-( They just use it
to contain a message given to anyone attemting to log in while a shutdwon
is in progress (it's not the message printed to active sessions when a
shutdown starts, though).
If your system uses NIS, then you could just change the contents of the
passwd line in /etc/nsswitch.conf from "passwd: files nis" to "passwd:
files" and add your own entry to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Fri Apr 20 2001 - 02:53:20 BST