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Old 09-09-2008
gajju gajju is offline
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Originally Posted by Lakris View Post
Hi,
Type a message into the file /etc/nologin, then this will be shown and the login will be refused.

See man nologin

/Lakris
it's coooool.
but how does it work?
how creation of /etc/nologin file restrict all the users except superuser....