On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 05:50:48PM +0000, Sam Sam wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have question about the /etc/nologin file...
> 
> It seems according to the tests i made that it disable all way of *remote* login (telnet, ssh, ftp ...)except 
> 
> But my probleme is that it is not mentioned on the man that it enables local logins.
> 
> So is the man not complete, or did I screw up in my tests ?

I just did a test, and is also disable non-root local login in text mode.
However I think xdm doesn't honnor it; maybe that's what you were testing ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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