It was a one-off. I can assure you that this should be considered a bug, whether or not the functionality is intentional. Think about it, let's say you are a regular user who just restarted your Windows machine, only to discover that for whatever reason, you suddenly are completely unable to log in. How likely are you to consider this a feature, and how likely are you to ask your geek friend if he can fix your broken computer?
To really drive the point home, extend this concept out into the server world. How likely is it that a sysadmin wants to be locked out of a machine he set up that is running on the other side of the world after issuing a restart? I'd say he's likely to be P/O/ed enough to consider standardizing on another OS entirely after such an incident, assuming he still has his job and all his clients afterwards, of course. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1048780 Title: Updating some packages in 10.04 LTS creates /etc/nologin file and therefore makes you unable to ever log into the system again To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1048780/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
