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Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 16:29:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
To: Evan Polster <71544.1006@compuserve.com>
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Subject: Re: Can't login to root from X
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On 12 Oct 1995, Evan Polster wrote:
> 
> I have succesfully booted X by logging into my personal account.
> 
> However, I cannot login to root.
> 
> My root password is NULL.

    If you are logging in through xdm, you must have a password on the
account.  Why would you not have a root password anyway?
--
Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
System Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"