From 486fccf2e73926a0c36c0252439c57eae96591ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:54:59 +1200 Subject: [PATCH] nologin.5: nologin must not only exist, but *be readable* to be effective Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man5/nologin.5 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man5/nologin.5 b/man5/nologin.5 index d84a56667..da55e21f2 100644 --- a/man5/nologin.5 +++ b/man5/nologin.5 @@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ .\" .\" Modified Sun Jul 25 11:06:34 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .\" Corrected Mon Oct 21 17:47:19 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com) -.TH NOLOGIN 5 1992-12-29 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH NOLOGIN 5 2012-04-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME nologin \- prevent unprivileged users from logging into the system .SH DESCRIPTION -If the file \fI/etc/nologin\fP exists, +If the file \fI/etc/nologin\fP exists and is readable, .BR login (1) will allow access only to root. Other users will