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From: arturj@flowbee.interaccess.com (Artur Jasowicz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: logging in
Date: 22 May 1995 05:41:10 GMT
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I went to Linux newsgroup and I've found answer to my question there. In 
case some other newbie runs into same problem here's one possible solution:

Check the permissions on / (ls -ld /)  You'll prolly find that the 
permissions are not set for "other" read and execute.  Do a 'chmod 755 /' 
and see if that helps.

This worked for me. Above was a reply to question posted by someone who 
installed new program, and during instalation permissions got changed 
somehow.

Artur