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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: First posting of the 386BSD 0.1 unofficial bug-list 1/1 Keywords: info and stuff Message-ID: <165e51INN6an@disaster.Germany.EU.net> Date: 10 Aug 92 09:50:25 GMT References: <1992Aug7.235255.3116@coe.montana.edu> Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 26 NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net Addendum: I decided it might be a good idea to add something to my /etc/rc like >if [ -r /single ] >then >echo "will stay in single user mode" >exit 0 >fi Unfortunately, this makes init's forked incarnation exit 0 so init puts a getty/login on /dev/console. Same thing happend after "exit 1" and terminating the single user shell. This proved to be fun since /etc/nologins still existed *and* al the uid 0's didn't have a password. login then decided that logging in as root was not a root login. Workaround: Give your root account a password. Cheers, Bernard -- Bernard Steiner, FB Informatik/IRB, Uni Dortmund, vox +49 231 755 2444 Postfach 500500, D-W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany fax +49 231 755 2386 bs@Germany.EU.net ...!uunet!unido!bs *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome, *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV