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- Subject: Re: Help! everyone is "bin",
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- Date: 30 Jul 92 10:03:27 GMT
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- In article <C-AMB.92Jul29101330@solitude.math.utah.edu> c-amb@math.utah.edu (Mark B. Alston) writes:
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- > Currently when anyone besides root logs in they are given bin
- >privilages. whoami always shows bin while who shows the correct users
- >loged in. I am running off of a highly modified mcc-interim release.
- >Just before the problem occured I copied the shutdown binaries from
- >the 0.96 root disk. I also copied mount, and a few other programs
- >from the root disk (I can't remember them all now). I checked the
- >/etc/passwd file and the /etc/group file and everything seems ok. Any
- >Ideas?
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- Make sure that /bin/login is owned by root.
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