From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed May 28 15:33:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA07916 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 28 May 1997 15:33:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA07909 for ; Wed, 28 May 1997 15:33:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA02663; Wed, 28 May 1997 15:35:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19970528153510.56974@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 15:35:10 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Donn Miller Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xterm -e login doesn't work (right) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Donn Miller on Wed, May 28, 1997 at 11:17:54AM +0000 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Donn Miller scribbled this message on May 28: > Hi, > > On 2.2.1-RELEASE, xterm -e login doesn't work correctly. When I use my > correct username and password, it says "login incorrect". It does this > after multiple tries. I'm assuming this has been fixed in 2.2.2-RELEASE, > and is somehow related to the problem in 2.2.1 where after installing for > the first time it asks for a root password. well.. I'm running 2.2.1-R (thought I might have some stray libs from a 3.0-SNAP) and it works perfectly fine over here... hmm... have you checked the permissions of login?? possibly the suid bit has been removed... hope this helps.. ttyl.. -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD