From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jul 17 6: 3:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from lh2.rdc1.tx.home.com (ha2.rdc1.tx.home.com [24.4.0.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB22837B857 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 06:03:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from miklic@attglobal.net) Received: from attglobal.net ([24.10.140.87]) by lh2.rdc1.tx.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000717130311.JJNH13510.lh2.rdc1.tx.home.com@attglobal.net>; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 06:03:11 -0700 Message-ID: <397304CA.958E1396@attglobal.net> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:06:19 -0600 From: "Andrew M. Miklic" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-RC alpha) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fosburgh@flash.net Cc: Conrad Sabatier , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Will Andrews Subject: Re: GDM References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Here is a red flag to look for. FreeBSD passwords are encrypted differently > than passwords in most UNIX systems. I have run into some code (such as the > LambdaMOO server) that expect old style passwords, and so you have to do > some special patching to fix that. I would check there if it is not > authenticating correctly. Interesting...if this is true, do you know how kdm does it (we have a port for kde-core, which contains kdm, and it works fine)--do they do this same big bandaid? Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message