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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.0 now refusing logins
Keywords: /bin/login /upgrade
Message-ID: <15204@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 17 Oct 90 11:40:54 GMT
References: <1990Oct16.184639.26749@csvax.cs.ukans.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Oct16.184639.26749@csvax.cs.ukans.edu> conley@csvax.cs.ukans.edu writes:
> We shutdown, moved, and rebooted our 5400 a couple of days ago, and surprise!
> Any attempt to login ( other than root on the console ) got the "too many
> users" message. Running license shows that we are authorized 64+ logins.

> Any ideas what's going on here?

You got to wonder what really happened.  The two most notorious reasons for
this are running a kernel without "option QUOTA" and not running the standard
Ultrix init/getty/login (I recall getty as the critical piece).

Perhaps in your moving, you changed the default boot sequence and are now
booting a different kernel or off of a different drive than previously?

-- 
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