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From: pavanas@meridio.ccia.com (pavanas abludo incusus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q]'su' questions
Date: 1 Jul 1997 04:03:14 GMT
Organization: Aragorn Asteria
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On 29 Jun 1997 16:14:20 -0700,
 Ron Echeverri <rone@bofh.noc.best.net> mused and hath written:

>In article <5p6n7j$ftu$1@darla.visi.com>,
>Josh Lynch  <tyme@nospam.visi.com> wrote:
>>I've been getting an error like "unknwon class "root" whenever I try to
>>'su' to root from a user account. I didn't have this problem in 2.2.1, but
>>I have it in 2.2.2! Anyone know what is happening? Thanks.
>
>Find login.conf in /usr/src/etc.  Copy it to /etc.  Et voila.
>
Did that and still see complaints. Time to apply  'cap_mkdb
/etc/login.conf' as needed?

>rone
>-- 
>rone's rules:                                                     Ron Echeverri
>- I don't care.                                   Systems/Usenet Administration
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