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From: bvickers@valentine.ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers)
Subject: [386BSD] Only root can login & MAXUSERS > 4?
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Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Keywords: Permission denied  MAXUSERS  386BSD
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Date: 29 Sep 92 19:37:30 GMT

I've had two problems with 386BSD:

1. All of a sudden, only the root user can login to my machine.  Whenever
   someone else tries to login, I get "/bin/tcsh: Permission denied."
   It doesn't matter what shell that user is set up for either.  This
   didn't start happening until I had installed X386.  Permissions on
   the shell programs, the /dev/vga and /dev/console devices, and
   just about everything I could think of are set correctly.  It's
   not a problem with the /etc/shells file either.  Anybody got an
   idea on what's wrong?

2. I recompiled the kernel, setting MAXUSERS to 16, so that I could
   at least open a few windows under X386, but it still limits me
   to 4 pty's.  What have I done wrong?

Thnx

--
Brett J. Vickers		 "Don't go around saying the world owes you
bvickers@ics.uci.edu		 a living.  The world owes you nothing.
				 It was here first."  - Mark Twain