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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:18:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Assem Salama <salama@micro-net.com>
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On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Assem Salama wrote:

> When I first install FreeBSD (version 2.2.2). I got an error message
> when I tried to log on as root. The error message was 'unokn class root'
> (or something like that). If anyone can help, that would be greatly
> appreciated.

Do one of the following:

1. Upgrade to 2.2.5-RELEASE (highly recommended, 2.2.2 is pretty buggy)
2. Grab ftp://gdi.uoregon.edu/pub/login.conf, replace the one you have in
/etc, and follow instructions in the file to rebuild the database.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major