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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: more ideas: HELP!
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> > > 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 xdm won't
> > allow them?
> 
> Nate: the xdm login works, the non-xdm login doesn't.

That's irelevant to the your answer.  I'm 99.5% sure that xdm is linked
shared, so your logic is wrong.  Now, I didn't say I had the answer to
why it didn't work, but xdm's linkage is *not* the problem.


Nate