Bug 155357

Summary:	root unable to login on console if /etc/nologin exists
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Mark Nelson <mark.nelson>
Component:	pam	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version:	4.0	CC:	srevivo
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Description Mark Nelson 2005-04-19 14:34:06 UTC

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Description of problem:
When the file /etc/nologin exists root is unable to log in on a virtual console

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pam-0.77-65.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.login as root on a virtual console
2. Create the file /etc/nologin
3. login as root on a second virtual console, login fails
  

Actual Results:  Unable to login on console as root, you can login across the network via ssh as root

Expected Results:  root should be able to login in.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2005-04-19 15:25:24 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154030 ***