jmsellens@watmath.waterloo.edu (09/30/89)
From: John M Sellens <jmsellens> It was empty, dated Sept 13, seemed to be preventing logins. I went looking for the Sun login source. On orchid I looked at /usr/source/longnames/_bin/login/login.c and /usr/src/bin/login.c - both only allow root logins if /etc/nologins exists. Maybe /bin/login got rdisted from somewhere else and killed the one on lily that allowed us in? /etc/nologins should not have been empty in any case. But Guy says that lily would still let him in and so I don't understand why. I don't know which login we were actually using - it pointed to the longnames package. I couldn't find anything weird in the passwd file.
gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (09/30/89)
From: Guy Middleton <gamiddleton> We were running the one from 30 May, which is now in lily:/software/longnames/bin/login.old. There should be a /etc/nologins file. I don't know what changed. I copied login from orchid to lily (the copy that is there now), but that didn't help.