[aclug-L] Re: Login in problem...

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm... I'll add that to my list of reasons not to isntall Red Hat.  :-)


On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 11:58:34AM -0600, Maverick, Ven-Han Ieong wrote:
> 
> Oh...yes,thank you so much...you know what...my man page doesn't show on
> this...that is RH6.0..I wonder why? The manpage doesn't have anything
> about /etc/nologin on shutdown..is that because my man page or shutdown
> package is too old? Thank you.
>                                       Mav
> 
> On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Jonathan Hall wrote:
> 
> ->From the shutdown man page:
> ->
> ->
> ->       If shutdown is called with a delay, it creates  the  advi-
> ->       sory  file  /etc/nologin  which  causes  programs  such as
> ->       login(1) to not  allow  new  user  logins.  Shutdown  only
> ->       removes  this  file  if it is stopped before it can signal
> ->       init (i.e. it is cancelled or something goes wrong).  Oth-
> ->       erwise  it is the responsibility of the system shutdown or
> ->       startup scripts to remove this  file  so  that  users  can
> ->       login.
> ->
> ->Perhaps /etc/nologin was not properly removed--try logging in as root and
> ->see if this file still exists.  If it does, try removing it.
> ->
> ->
> ->
> ->On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 10:47:47AM -0600, Maverick, Ven-Han Ieong wrote:
> ->> Hi, all, 
> ->>   I got a problem on my linux box, yesterday night, I shutdown my
> ->> linux box in two mins as root with the command line
> ->> /sbin/shutdown -h +2
> ->> I ususally did
> ->> /sbin/halt
> ->> 
> ->>   so, the next day when I tried to login as normal user...
> ->> login: username
> ->> Password: XXXXX
> ->> The system is going down on Sun Oct 31 01:01:57 1999
> ->> 
> ->> Login incorrect
> ->> 
> ->> login: 
> ->> 
> ->>   I am sure my password is correct...I am not able to login as a
> ->> normal user, I can login as root only...,and  then do a
> ->> su user
> ->> that is so much pain....
> ->>   If someone has experience this and know the solution, please
> ->> help... TIA.
> ->> 
> ->>                   Regards,
> ->>                                           Mav
> ->> 
> ->> 
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