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From: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Root login refused on this terminal ... WHAT?
Date: 19 Jun 1995 16:42:33 -0400
Organization: Michigan State University
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>In article <DAAKrH.C1C@ecf.toronto.edu> ficnar@ecf.toronto.edu (FICNAR  FRANK G
) writes:
>>Hello,
>>
>>    I've just successfully built my own kernel and when the login prompt
>>appeared and I tried to log in as root it told me ...
>>
>>    Root login refused on this terminal

Make *sure* you dont remove COMPAT_43 from your kernel, if you do, you get the
above.

-Crh
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    Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu

                     http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/