login message and blocking

[Raghavan_2]

I am fairly new to HP UX, pl excuse me if I am wrong.
I have to issues to attend on HP-UX 11i v2 on Itanium2 1.5Ghz server.
1) I want to display a message on screen when users login that the server is under maintenance
2) I want to stop the users from logging on to the server during the maintenance period.

Pl help me to resolve this.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Raghavan

[Ivan Krastev]

Add some lines in /etc/profile:


user=`whoami`
if [ $user != root ]
then
echo "maintenance - try after ..."
exit
fi


regards,
ivan

[Joel Girot]

Create or modify the file "security" in /etc/default/ and Put in NOLOGIN=1
the file owner will be bin:bin with 444 permissions.
Also create a file /etc/nologin and Put the message in there so that users gets it.

Please also read:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33 on how to reward any useful answers given to your questions

Regards
Joel

[Raghavan_2]

Thank you very much the script for the /etc/profile worked the way I was looking for.
Thank you very much.

[Raghavan_2]

The script for /etc/profile solved my problem.
Thank you.
Regards,
Raghavan.