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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!ogicse!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!serval!beta.tricity.wsu.edu!msmith From: msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.0 rel. xdm-des won't login Message-ID: <1993Nov23.235352.10020@serval.net.wsu.edu> Date: 23 Nov 93 23:53:52 GMT Article-I.D.: serval.1993Nov23.235352.10020 References: <1993Nov22.075226.24701@serval.net.wsu.edu> <blackw.754075172@sfu.ca> Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Washington State University TriCities Lines: 19 In article <blackw.754075172@sfu.ca> blackw@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard Blackwell) writes: >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. > I set up passwords first off. All accounts have passwords. The reason I want to use xdm-des is because startx gives me some xterminal problems that xdm doesn't. Mark