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- From: pete@wvus.org (Pete Gregory)
- Subject: Re: DYNIX/ptx equivalent to DYNIX /etc/nologin
- Organization: World Vision U.S.
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 19:09:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.190915.26686@wvus.org>
- References: <1992Jul23.100315.13912@aston.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Jul23.100315.13912@aston.ac.uk> stopsdj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (David Stops) writes:
- >Is there a simple way of preventing people logging on to a DYNIX/ptx system.
- >In DYNIX this can be achieved by creating /etc/nologin, if this file exists
- >when a user attempts to log in, login prints its contents and exits. Is there
- >an equivalent in DYNIX/ptx ?
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- Unfortunately, there is no equivalent in PTX.
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- We're going to use a different approach, and create a "quiescent" mode on
- our PTX systems whereby everything is up and running, but only
- administrators can log in. Start by adding code to /etc/profile...
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