Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:58:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Login at boot? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960713185646.1065F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960713114328.75350D-100000@homer14.u.washington.edu>
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On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Ken Marsh wrote: > I'm new to unix and to FreeBSD. I just installed the system on half of my > hard drive with the dual boot option. It seems to work fine. However, upon > boot, I don't get a login prompt. Rather, I am just root from the get-go. > This doesn't seem right to me. Furthermore, when I do log in, I get: > > NO LOGINS -- System going down at 16:00 Somehow /etc/nologin got dropped and you need to remove it. Boot to single user mode (with -s) and delete it. Did you turn the machine off when running shutdown at any point? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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