Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!jmsellens
From: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens)
Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.bugs
Subject: Re: removed /etc/nologin on lily
Message-ID: <16828@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 1 Oct 89 00:08:29 GMT
References: <29606@watmath.waterloo.edu> <549@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens)
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Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <549@maytag.waterloo.edu> accwai@maytag.waterloo.edu (Andy Wai) writes:
>I put the nologin back and lily no longer allow me to login.  Presumably,
>something erase the old /bin/login.  Anyway, taking out the /etc/nologin
>is bad news, so I took the source under orchid:/usr/source/longnames and
>put in the operator hack (4 lines of change).
It should probably print the /etc/nologin file whether or not it's about
to let you in.  I just tried it and I didn't see the contents of /etc/nologin.

>The new login is installed under /usr/bin as a real file, and the source
>is still on my lily account.  This is only temporary.  I'll do the real
>installation Monday.

So if the longnames package was distributed from orchid, then this new
login program would get clobbered and stuck in vendor and we'd be back
not being able to login.  Bad idea.