From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 29 21:54:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from 12-234-22-238.client.attbi.com (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12C5837B416; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:54:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from master.gorean.org (master.gorean.org [10.0.0.2]) by 12-234-22-238.client.attbi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3U4sHPp003096; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:54:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by master.gorean.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g3U4sGgl071539; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:54:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:54:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-X-Sender: doug@master.gorean.org To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: John Baldwin , Subject: Re: xdm broken on current In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020429215220.S71345-100000@master.gorean.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 > -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message