[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#191038: Patch to login man page to document /etc/nologin OK to be a symlink

[Christian Perrier]

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The long story of #191038 finally concluded that the only need is for
login man page to mention that /etc/nologin can be a symbolic link for
people who want to try keeping a read-only /etc

Tomasz, please find attahced a patch for upstream CVS's login man page
XML source. I just added a mention about this file OK for being a
symlink.


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--- login.1.xml.ori	2005-05-24 19:06:01.000000000 +0200
+++ login.1.xml	2005-05-26 04:09:33.695634315 +0200
@@ -172,6 +172,12 @@
       <filename>/etc/nologin</filename>		- prevent non-root users from
       logging in
       <!-- .br -->
+                                                  (can be a symbolic link to another
+      <!-- .br -->
+                                                   file for users wanting to use a 
+      <!-- .br -->
+                                                   read-only root filesystem)
+      <!-- .br -->
       <filename>/etc/ttytype</filename>		- list of terminal types
       <!-- .br -->
       <emphasis remap='I'>$HOME/.hushlogin</emphasis>	- suppress printing

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