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From: geoffrey@netins.net (geoffrey alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: unknown class root in 2.2.2-RELEASE
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 15:25:54 -0500
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In article <5mgh3o$j2m$1@soggy.eis.net.au>, ernie@eis.net.au (Ernie Elu) wrote:
> I am getting the following message on the console every time I login or ftp
> to a newly installed 2.2.2-RELEASE machine.
>
> inetd[150]: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
>
> I used cvsup to upgrade to 2.2-STABLE but I still get the same error message
>
> The system is using DES encryption on passwords, everything else is
> standard.
>
> Any suggestions?
The problem seems to be that there is no default login.conf file provided
with the release -- although it's omission isn't damaging, the man page
(sec 5) is dense enough I haven't attempted to create one myself from
scratch (and I have enough things to configure) so I get the same error on
the console, even though I did a clean install on a newly partitioned disk.
The facilities that this new capability-file allows look interesting though
-- I'd like to see a more basic 'how-to' documentation somewhere.
I should mention this is the ONLY problem I've had with this release. It's
gorgeous, and well worth the time.
Geoffrey Alexander
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