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From: hissam@source.asset.com (Scott A. Hissam)
Subject: xdm for XFree86 1.2 & crypt
Message-ID: <1993Feb22.032352.33872@source.asset.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 03:23:52 GMT
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386bsd'ers

	in trying out xdm for XFree 1.2, it would not accept my password as
valid and I AM using dummy passwords, running strings(1) on xdm yields:

farpoint:hissam->95  strings /usr/bin/X11/xdm.outoftheway | grep -i crypt
@(#)crypt.c     5.11 (Berkeley) 6/25/91

	Where as running strings(1) on a silly C program that links in
crypt(3) from libc.a yields:

farpoint:hissam->94  strings cr | grep -i crypt
Crypt not present in system

	and sure enough when the silly program is run it prints out the
message as one might expect.

	I think xdm is compiled with crypt.c as opposed as crypt_dummy.c
README.386bsd from XFree86 1.2 directory on agate.berkeley.edu says that
this is the other way around.

	can anyone verify or contradict my suspicion?

thanks

scott

hissam@cards.com