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From: jmsellens@watmath.waterloo.edu
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Subject: removed /etc/nologin on lily
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Date: 29 Sep 89 21:31:08 GMT
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From: John M Sellens 

It was empty, dated Sept 13, seemed to be preventing logins.
I went looking for the Sun login source. On orchid I looked at
/usr/source/longnames/_bin/login/login.c and /usr/src/bin/login.c
- both only allow root logins if /etc/nologins exists.
Maybe /bin/login got rdisted from somewhere else and killed the one
on lily that allowed us in?  /etc/nologins should not have been
empty in any case.  But Guy says that lily would still let him in
and so I don't understand why.  I don't know which login we were
actually using - it pointed to the longnames package.  I couldn't
find anything weird in the passwd file.