[olug] Unix Tip: KEEP THAT USER OUT!

[Nick Walter]

one time, in a situation that called for drastic measures, I used

touch /etc/nologin;pkill -9 bash

Worked like a charm; disconnected all users (me included), disallowed new
logins,  and nuked several shell scripts that may or may not have been
innocent bystanders.  I don't recommend doing it in situations where you
have a few minutes to do something more elegant, but for a quick measure
it's effective.

Nick Walter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Pierce" <eric_olug at yahoo.com>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] Unix Tip: KEEP THAT USER OUT!


>
> --- William Haisch <whaisch2 at cox.net> wrote:
> > If I read this correctly, this keeps new logins off
> > the system but what
> > about users already logged on?  Just my dime....
> >
> Just tried it.  They stay logged on.
>
> Eric Pierce
>
>
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