From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 9 09:06:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA19108 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 May 1996 09:06:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA19094 for ; Thu, 9 May 1996 09:06:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA27926; Thu, 9 May 1996 10:04:32 -0600 Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 10:04:32 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199605091604.KAA27926@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert Cc: tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu (Benjamin Tomhave), questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: more ideas: HELP! In-Reply-To: <199605082332.QAA27162@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199605082332.QAA27162@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Next...I can telnet out of the machine. I can ftp (non-anon) in and out > > of the machine. The only problem is when you try and login to the > > machine. You type your username. You type your password. THEN it tells > > you "Login incorrect." However, you know for a fact that the computer is > > full of crap because you just logged-into the same account with the same > > username and password from the x-console 2 seconds earlier. > > The login program uses a dynamically linked crypt authentication, > whereas the xdm program is (typically) statically linked. This hasn't been true since 1.0. 'xdm' has been linked shared for a *very* long time. However, do you have NULL passwords, since xdmwon't allow them? Nate