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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 01:31:02 -0500 (EST)
From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <jmcla@ocala.cs.miami.edu>
To: Francis Vidal <francis@cody.usls.edu>
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Subject: Re: URGENT: login failed
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Start the computer up in single user mode (at the boot: prompt, type
-s).  Then, mount /usr, and change the ownership of /usr/bin/login.
Then reboot.

Joe Clarke

On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Francis Vidal wrote:

> hello everyone!
> 
> i accidentally changed the ownership of the program `login' from root.bin
> to bin.bin :I how do i fix this problem since i could not login to the
> machine?
> 
> thanks!
> 
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