On Monday 21 of November 2016, @lbutlr wrote: > On Nov 21, 2016, at 7:39 AM, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <[email protected]> wrote: > > reason is the only thing in maillog that allows to distinguish why user > > was not allowed to log in. > > Um… the only thing? How about where you set the reason in the first place?
That "first" place is constantly changing (database) and I'm looking at logs from X days/weeks ago, so database doesn't even have old info. log it the only place where it would make sense to store a reason. > I think the assumption with nologin is that the admin knows the reason, > especially considering that nologin is drastic and is almost certain to > confuse the user’s MUA, so should only be used in dire cases. 4 different and dynamically changing reasons possible, so it's not that simple. -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )
