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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber2.cyberstore.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsserver.sfu.ca!sfu.ca!blackw From: blackw@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard Blackwell) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.0 rel. xdm-des won't login Message-ID: <blackw.754075172@sfu.ca> Sender: news@sfu.ca Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada References: <1993Nov22.075226.24701@serval.net.wsu.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1993 17:19:32 GMT Lines: 18 msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith) writes: >Greetings, >I've just gotten the XFree 2.0 downloaded and upacked. One MAJOR >problem. When I fire up xdm-des (linked as xdm) I try to log in and it >won't let me. Have you got a password set for your account? I am using xdm rather than xdm-des (yeah, big secret), but my system will not allow a user to login via xdm if a password has not been set for that account. startx, howerver, will put out for anyone. Hope this helps. Cheers Richard Blackwell blackw@sfu.ca