On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 10:31:28 +0530, Bhaskar wrote: > /etc/motd This file contains the system message, which is printed on login. > /etc/passwd This file contains colon separated fields of user account information. The seventh (and last) field of each line contains the program to be executed on a successful login. If this is set to, for example, /bin/false, it would have the described effect. > /etc/nologin Login prints "Login incorrect" and does not even prompt for the password if a username from this list is entered. > /etc/usertty I don't know what that is. > .hushlogin This file prevents output of the system message. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/