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From: randy@chinet.UUCP (Randy Suess)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Disabling logins under System V
Message-ID: <1309@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 19:50:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 16 19:50:52 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 10:15:06 EDT
References: <905@woton.UUCP>
Reply-To: randy@chinet.UUCP (Randy Suess)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <905@woton.UUCP> riddle@woton.UUCP writes:
>I am looking for some advice about the preferred way to temporarily
>disable all user logins under System V.  What I want is something
>analogous to the BSD "/etc/nologin" file (or is that what it's really

	A friend of mine wrote a /bin/login from scratch that implements
the /etc/nologin feature.  I use it on my 3b2 to do just what you
are asking for.  It also implements the /etc/issue, chroot logins
and some other niceties.
Available for the  emailing..


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Randy Suess
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