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From: arturj@flowbee.interaccess.com (Artur Jasowicz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: logging in
Date: 22 May 1995 05:23:02 GMT
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For a while I was setting up my FreeBSD system and therefore I logged in 
as root all the time. Recently I've tried to login as guest, or anyone 
else belonging to group number other than 0, and I kept getting the 
following: 
login: test
Last login: Sun May 21 23:46:32 on ttyp1
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FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE

Welcome to FreeBSD!

login: /bin/bash: Permission denied
login:

Changing group for guest to wheel (0) allowed me to get in, but this is 
obviously not an acceptable solution.
I've looked in man pages, tried restoring initial configuration of all 
files in /etc directory, but had no luck. After installing fresh new copy 
of FreeBSD on another drive and booting from it, I could log-in as guest 
with no problems. The reason for this problem must be in some change that 
I've made somewhere in the system setup, but I can't figure out what or 
where.
Please help!

Artur Jasowicz
arturj@interaccess.com