Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:54:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, <current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: xdm broken on current Message-ID: <20020429215220.S71345-100000@master.gorean.org> In-Reply-To: <xzp7kmqbkeo.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Is there any chance that this can be fixed in such a way that 3rd
party binaries, like the xdm which comes with X as distributed by
xfree86.org will work OOB? Breaking binary compat will be a fairly big
obstacle for adoption of 5.x.... we have a hard enough time getting
vendors to support us as it is.
Doug
On 29 Apr 2002, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Ah, so the bug is my binary is too old and is linked against the wrong PAM.
> > Ok, my bad then.
>
> Well, yes and no. There is a bug in xdm which is exposed by the
> combination of Linux-PAM and FreeBSD's stock PAM configuration. A
> slightly different configuration would not trigger it, nor would the
> current version of OpenPAM. I'd say the blame is evenly spread.
>
> DES
>
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