Bug 155357 - root unable to login on console if /etc/nologin exists
Summary: root unable to login on console if /etc/nologin exists
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 154030
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: pam
Version: 4.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Tomas Mraz
QA Contact: Jay Turner
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-04-19 14:34 UTC by Mark Nelson
Modified: 2015-01-08 00:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-04-19 15:25:24 UTC
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Description Mark Nelson 2005-04-19 14:34:06 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Firefox/0.10.1

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 ***
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