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Old 06-24-2009
KmJohnson KmJohnson is offline
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small ? on /etc/default/security edit?

Hi all,
Has anyone ever been burned by editing /etc/default/security with vi? or should this only be edited inside of SAM or some such tool?

I want to turn on /etc/nologin as a tool to lock out all users but keep my system in multi mode for DB maintenance. TIA -KJ

PS I have been burned editing some AIX txt files that should only be modified by smitty…