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From: Ron Bickers <rbickers@intercenter.net>
Subject: Re: unknown class root in 2.2.2-RELEASE
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Ernie Elu <ernie@eis.net.au> wrote:
: I am getting the following message on the console every time I login or ftp
: to a newly installed 2.2.2-RELEASE machine.

: inetd[150]: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'

: I used cvsup to upgrade to 2.2-STABLE but I still get the same error message

: The system is using DES encryption on passwords, everything else is
: standard.

: Any suggestions?

See the newly introduced 'login.conf' --- (man login.conf)

I don't think it hurts not having any classes defined
but I haven't looked into it much so I don't know.

---
Ron