In fairness, that would be a security compromise for sshd to notify a user about why they are being denied access, especially since sshd runs /bin/login which is what actually sees the /etc/nologin semaphore file. -- Mike On 2000-05-10 at 16:51 -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Ben has been fiddling with the kernel to try to fix an SMP related oops. > While doing this /etc/nologin is set and ssh kindly doesn't bother to tell > anyone (crappy)