Re: tlug: xdm and 'nologin' on Slackware

[Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>]

Hi,

On 14-Jul-98 Rex Walters wrote:
> Just as an aside, deleting the line in the boot scripts that
> removes /etc/nologin is probably a bad idea (kind of like
> setting the default init state to 6 in in /etc/inittab).
> 
> On the other hand, if you're extremely security conscious,
> doing either of the above should make your machine pretty much
> impregnable.

That's why I had the 'rescue' floppy (the one that boots the
second IDE HDD) in one hand while typing 'shutdown -r now' on the
SCSI drive;-) If you're going to mess around - use precautions
:-) :-)

Jim S.

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