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From: David Dawes <dawes@physics.usyd.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: xdm (ain't there no-des anymore?)
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies)
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 16:49:53 +1000 (EST)
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>There were times when there were xdm-des and xdm-nodes in the XF86 distrib.
>Has DES code been taken out of xdm or what is the reason for this.
>
>I'm asking because I'm helping a person who cannot login through
>his xdm prompter and the des/nodes difference came to mind.

xdm is dynamically linked with libcrypt.so.2.0, so there is no need for
two different versions now.  This wasn't the case prior to 2.0.

David