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Re: /run and read-only /etc



On Apr 07, Thomas Hood <jdthood0@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

 >(I forgot to mention)  J.W.'s patch does more than what a mere symlink
 >would do.  By making programs sensitive both to /run/nologin and
 >/etc/nologin, it becomes possible for the administrator to prevent
 >logins by touching /etc/nologin, and this will not affect or be
 >affected by what sysvinit does to /run/nologin.  Is this a good idea?
No. This is a gratuitous incompaibility from long time UNIX systems
practice.

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