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Subject: Re: replaceing usr/bin/login 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Dec 1995 07:54:51 PST."
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 08:17:51 -0800
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>>On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, David Greenman wrote:
>>
>>Tried that - it didnt work.
>
>   Did you do it as root? If so, the only other thing that could cause this to
>fail would be if the sysctl variable kern.securelevel is > 0 (it shouldn't be
>that way unless you've changed it).
>
>-DG

Or fsck corrupted it and set more than just the immutable bit.  I've seen
this happen before.  Do an ls -lo and turn off (via chflags) any of
the flags on the file.
--
Justin T. Gibbs
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