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Fred Terp wrote:

> This is a dumb Question which I should know the answer to. I can get gdm
> to recogize my logins but xdm and wdm wont accept my username/password
>  entrys what am I forgetting?
> 

Not sure if this will help, but are you configuring the ttyv8 line in 
/etc/ttys?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html

-Mike