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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: Problem with logging in as "root"...
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970620043115.8496B-100000@nscfw.iafrica.com> from Brad Hendrickse at "Jun 20, 97 04:35:05 am"
To: bradh@iafrica.com (Brad Hendrickse)
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:06:24 +0200 (MET DST)
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> 
>  I've just finished a "make world", and now when I login as root, I get
> the following message:
> 
> login: root
> Jun 20 04:30:42 spiral login: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
> Password:
> Lastt login .... etc...
> 
>  Any idea what could be causing that?

After `make world' you are supposed to merge new files in /usr/src/etc
with your files in /etc -- manually. Among others you'll find a
sample login.conf and have to copy it to /etc.


Wolfgang