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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: libgnumalloc
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 21:26:42 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Kachun Lee <kachun@zippo.com>
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Kachun Lee wrote:
> 2.2.2 added login.conf support. There is a 'news' login class defined in the
> distributed login.conf. However, the 'news' login class did not make into the
> distributed 'master.passwd'. If you did not add that manually, I


This is a little confused.  What's really going on is that there is no
login.conf file in /etc - it was left off the distribution list until
after 2.2.2 was released. See the ERRATA.TXT file in the 2.2.2
distribution for the fix.

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.