Re: rmnologin in rc$.d

["Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>]

In article <[🔎] 3F1A17C6.3010002@techhouse.org>,
Travis Crump  <pretzalz@techhouse.org> wrote:
>David Z Maze wrote:
>
>> Another is to use the man command; often random files are documented
>> in man pages.  For example, nologin(5) documents what exactly
>> /etc/nologin does such that you'd need an init script to remove it.
>
>
>No, it doesn't.  It documents why you'd need an init script to remove it 
>once another init script creates it, but it doesn't really explain why 
>the bootmisc.sh needs to create it in the first place.  Would there be 
>anything wrong/dangerous in setting DELAYEDLOGIN=no[and then moving gdm 
>as early as possible in the queue]?

You do not want to let users login before networking is up,
NIS is running, and $DEITY knows what else is needed for a correct
user environment.

That is why a /etc/nologin is created early in the bootprocess,
before it is possible for mortals to login, and removed just before
the entire bootsequence is complete.

Mike.