Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 15:34:28 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams), tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: more ideas: HELP! Message-ID: <199605102134.PAA04332@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199605102046.NAA02609@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199605091604.KAA27926@rocky.sri.MT.net> <199605102046.NAA02609@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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> > > 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 xdm won't > > allow them? > > Nate: the xdm login works, the non-xdm login doesn't. That's irelevant to the your answer. I'm 99.5% sure that xdm is linked shared, so your logic is wrong. Now, I didn't say I had the answer to why it didn't work, but xdm's linkage is *not* the problem. Nate
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