On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 07:35:30PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > During the boot up process, the file /etc/nologin is created with the > contents "System bootup in progress - please wait". Only root is > allowed to log in while this file exists. For all other users, the > contents of the file is given as the reason why they can't log in. If > you remove that file, then other users will be able to log in. That > happens as one of the last things the boot up sequence does. Well, you learn something new every day. I had this exact problem a while back on my firewall; I never actually looked into it very hard, since I needed to login so rarely, and it fixed itself when I rebooted it for a kernel upgrade. -rob
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