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Date:      Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:06:19 -0600
From:      "Andrew M. Miklic" <miklic@attglobal.net>
To:        fosburgh@flash.net
Cc:        Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
Subject:   Re: GDM
Message-ID:  <397304CA.958E1396@attglobal.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007162134040.9531-100000@gw.fosburgh.org>

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> 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



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