From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 10 14:41:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA27237 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 May 1996 14:41:37 -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 OAA27230 for ; Fri, 10 May 1996 14:41:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA02842; Fri, 10 May 1996 14:40:46 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605102140.OAA02842@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: more ideas: HELP! To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 14:40:45 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, nate@sri.MT.net, tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199605102134.PAA04332@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at May 10, 96 03:34:28 pm 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 > > > > 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.