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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] Only root can login & MAXUSERS > 4? Date: 30 Sep 92 07:34:35 GMT Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Lines: 39 Message-ID: <veit.717838475@du9ds3> References: <2AC8B07A.17659@ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Keywords: Permission denied MAXUSERS 386BSD In <2AC8B07A.17659@ics.uci.edu> bvickers@valentine.ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers) writes: >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? Who is the owner of /dev/console and /dev/vga, and which access rights do they have? Something like -rw-r----- is not a good setting for non-root users. Use 666 instead (Has nothing to do with the bible :-)) >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? Do you have a sufficient number of pty/tty entries in the /dev directory? Also check that the minor numbers of the pty/tty's are contiguous. >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 Hope that helps Holger -- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | Sorry, the above really good fortune has | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | been CENSORED because of obscenity"