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- From: macleod@vissgi.cvrti.utah.edu (Rob MacLeod)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Direct login failure
- Message-ID: <34013@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 15:35:40 GMT
- Article-I.D.: adm.34013
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
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- >I have a user who cannot log in directly to one of our Iris 4Ds
- >running 4.0.1. He tries, the screen blanks for a moment, and then
- >he's back at the login menu. (Even with no password, he fails.)
- >All other logins, on that machine or by that user, succeed. He
- >has a pretty boring .login and .cshrc. Any clues?
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- Make sure the user's .gamma file contains the value 1.700000 on a single
- line. This problem was fixed in some later version of 4.0.X but a number
- of peole, myself included, have stumbled over this "feature".
-
- Rob.
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