Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 14:40:45 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: terry@lambert.org, nate@sri.MT.net, tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: more ideas: HELP! Message-ID: <199605102140.OAA02842@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199605102134.PAA04332@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at May 10, 96 03:34:28 pm
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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. What you don't have is an answer to why xdm *does* work. Login *doesn't* work because the password format stored is not the one being used for the compare. REgards, 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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