From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 17 10:20:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA29562 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:20:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from barnes1.wustl.edu (barnes1.wustl.edu [128.252.162.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA29553 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:20:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu) Received: (from wayne@localhost) by barnes1.wustl.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) id MAA07913; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 12:14:14 -0600 (CST) From: "Wayne M. Barnes" Message-Id: <199712171814.MAA07913@barnes1.wustl.edu> Subject: login_getclass To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 12:14:13 -0600 (CST) Cc: kpielorz@tdx.co.uk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dear Karl, Thank you, that was it. I made /etc/login.conf r--r--r-- and now it's okay. ----- Forwarded message from Karl Pielorz ----- Hi! Re. your recent posting to FreeBSD questions... Make sure the file is world-readble (i.e. rw-r--r)... If it is and it's definitely in the /etc/ directory let me know... Regards, Karl Wayne M. Barnes wrote: > > Dear FreeBSD, > > My screen 1 is showing a lot of error messages > > login: login_getclass: retrieving class information: Permission denied > > This occurs whenever I log in over the network. Not when I log in > from screen 2. > > FreeBSD 2.2.5 > > Any ideas? I have looked at /etc/login.conf, but I don't see what I > could do there. Please explain. > > Thank you, > > Wayne M. Barnes, Ph.D. wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu