Bug#162996: Should not use pam_nologin

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:25:29AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Package: ssh
> Version: 1:3.4p1-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> sshd already supports /etc/nologin in a much more useful way, by displaying
> its contents to the user, rather than just rejecting the authentication
> attempt.

As I read pam_nologin's source code, it displays the contents of
/etc/nologin to the user, or at least is intended to. It seems like six
of one and half a dozen of the other whether we use PAM or ssh's inbuilt
support ...?

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]