<Q> unable to access /var/adm/lastlog...

From: John-Jessi Yeager <yeagerj_at_clpgh.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 10:32:12 EDT

hello managers;

here is a wacky one ::

symptoms... upon connection to our alpha 3000 digiUNIX 3.2D machine; users are
able to make the username / password entries but are promptly disconnected.

the message seen is " unable to open /var/adm/lastlog "

my questions are : what are the proper ownerships on this file and directory.
                 : is their a switch to turn this logging off.

another symptom occuring is the inability to launch decterm from within an xdm
GUI console session ... logged in as root. this effectively disables command
line access to this system...

is there a trick to get a command line prompt from within the GUI without
launching decterm or xterm...

any ideas would be brilliant for me ...
thankyou all...

john-jessi yeager
 
Received on Tue Sep 10 1996 - 17:08:21 NZST

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