From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 10 13:47:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA22517 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 May 1996 13:47:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA22511 for ; Fri, 10 May 1996 13:47:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA02609; Fri, 10 May 1996 13:46:28 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605102046.NAA02609@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: more ideas: HELP! To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 13:46:27 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199605091604.KAA27926@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at May 9, 96 10:04:32 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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.