Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 10:04:32 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu (Benjamin Tomhave), questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: more ideas: HELP! Message-ID: <199605091604.KAA27926@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199605082332.QAA27162@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <Pine.HPP.3.92.960508152314.27699D-100000@martin.luther.edu> <199605082332.QAA27162@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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> > 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
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