Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 13:46:27 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: terry@lambert.org, tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: more ideas: HELP! Message-ID: <199605102046.NAA02609@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199605091604.KAA27926@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at May 9, 96 10:04:32 am
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> > > Next...I can telnet out of the machine. I can ftp (non-anon) in and out > > > of the machine. The only problem is when you try and login to the > > > machine. You type your username. You type your password. THEN it tells > > > you "Login incorrect." However, you know for a fact that the computer is > > > full of crap because you just logged-into the same account with the same > > > username and password from the x-console 2 seconds earlier. > > > > The login program uses a dynamically linked crypt authentication, > > whereas the xdm program is (typically) statically linked. > > This hasn't been true since 1.0. 'xdm' has been linked shared for a > *very* long time. However, do you have NULL passwords, since xdmwon't > allow them? Nate: the xdm login works, the non-xdm login doesn't. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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