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Re: man login(1) references /etc/nologin instead of /etc/nologin.txt as said in man nologin(8)

To: Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net>
Subject: Re: man login(1) references /etc/nologin instead of /etc/nologin.txt as said in man nologin(8)
From: Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:54:41 +0100 (CET)
Cc: Dmitriy Medvedev <dima@oganer.net>, bugs@openbsd.org
References: <2988164844.20040113172922@oganer.net> <Pine.BSO.4.58.0401131134420.17528@inez.intra.drijf.net>

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Otto Moerbeek wrote:

> You are confusing the program nologin(8) (which displays
> login.txt)  and /etc/nologin (a file checked and displayed by login(1)).

As tom@ noted: s/login.txt/nologin.txt/

The first mechanism is to always disable login for a specific user,
while the second is for blocking login for (almost all) users for a short
period of time.

	-Otto

References:
- man login(1) references /etc/nologin instead of /etc/nologin.txt as said in man nologin(8)
  - From: Dmitriy Medvedev <dima@oganer.net>
- Re: man login(1) references /etc/nologin instead of /etc/nologin.txt as said in man nologin(8)
  - From: Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net>

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