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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 20:24:14 -0700
To: Brad Hendrickse <bradh@iafrica.com>
From: Steve Caine <shc@cfg.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with logging in as "root"...
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At 04:35 97/06/20 +0200, Brad Hendrickse wrote:
>[...]
>Jun 20 04:30:42 spiral login: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
>[...]

You need to

  cp -p /usr/src/etc/login.conf /etc

or create an /etc/login.conf from scratch (man 5 login.conf).

Steve.
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