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- From: stanj@ferrari.corp.sgi.com (Stan Jensen)
- Subject: Re: Direct login failure
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.231727.5300@odin.corp.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- References: <96800@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:17:27 GMT
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- In article <96800@netnews.upenn.edu>, weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
- |> 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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- See if the /etc/config/system.glGammaVal file is missing or empty. If so,
- as root try "echo 1.7 > /etc/config/system.glGammaVal". Hope this helps!
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