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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 11:21:42 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Jose Monteiro <jm@pluriproj.pt>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: login_getclass syslog message
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On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 05:53:26PM +0000, Jose Monteiro wrote:
> What does this syslog message means?
>
> Oct  6 18:43:00 thor inetd[205]: login_getclass: retrieving class
> information: Permission denied

I'd take a look at the permissions on /etc/login.conf first.  They
should be something like:

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  4763 Sep 10 12:56 /etc/login.conf

Greg