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Subject says it all, man page probably needs a bit of updating to be in sync what pam_nologin actually does these days. Or maybe the entire man page should move there anyway?
Well, nologin is binary that is completely independent on PAM, so we have "man pam_nologin" and "man nologin". The command /usr/sbin/nologin really uses /etc/nologin.txt. The command is fedora specific. Yes, it's mess. I'm going to: * modify the command to use /var/run/nologin or /etc/nologin * fix the man page * move the command to util-linux upstream
Oh, it also seems that we have two man pages: $ rpm -qf /usr/share/man/man8/nologin.8.gz /usr/share/man/man5/nologin.5.gz util-linux-2.22.2-7.fc18.x86_64 man-pages-3.43-2.fc18.noarch
Now when I think about it seems that your request does not make sense :-) pam_nologin uses the files to prevents users from logging into the system when /var/run/nologin or /etc/nologin exists. The pam_nologin is global way how to disable all regular accounts (see 'grep nologin /etc/pam.d/*') /sbin/nologin is per account setting (in /etc/passwd) and it's replacement to account shell and /etc/nologin.txt is used for non-default message. It means you cannot replace /etc/nologin.txt with /etc/nologin, because /etc/nologin will disable all accounts (where UID!=0). Anyway, I'll merge nologin to utils-linux rather than maintain fedora specific implemenations and add note about pam_nologin to the man page.
(In reply to Karel Zak from comment #3) > Anyway, I'll merge nologin to utils-linux rather than maintain fedora > specific implemenations and add note about pam_nologin to the man page. Done in f20 (upstream commit 88407b93212275759e8a54f5d43f4cf7da67fcdf).