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Pretty straight-forward. Does SSH ignore the nologin file created by shutdown -k TIME?

Using PAM Auth to sync password database to users; if that makes a difference.

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What do you expect from shutdown -k? On Linux the man page says: -k Don't really shutdown; only send the warning messages to everybody. – klapaucius Aug 31 '11 at 13:32
Yeah I guess the point is to not allow users to login anymore. But it seems like on my system, via SSH, they still can login. – fadmcrank Aug 31 '11 at 22:20

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Two problems, shutdown -k doesn't actually shutdown. Also shutdown ONLY creates the nologin file if you specify a shutdown time that is in the future (not now).

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Yeah I know. But it seems like the SSHD or it's AUTH is ignoring nologin because I still have people login in. – fadmcrank Aug 31 '11 at 22:22
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I guess I'm a little confused, did you touch that file? Or you did a shutdown now? shutdown -k won't create the file so it isn't there for sshd to ignore. – polynomial Aug 31 '11 at 22:26
Ignore my first comment. Because as @polynomial said, only shutdown creates the nologin file. And to all, sorry for taking so long to mark this one Answered. – fadmcrank Apr 17 '12 at 6:20

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