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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ftpbox!mothost!delphinium.rtsg.mot.com!zeus!aztec!essenl From: essenl@aztec.swindon.rtsg.mot.com (Lee Essen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.0 rel. xdm-des won't login Date: 26 Nov 1993 12:44:44 GMT Organization: Motorola Ltd., European Cellular Infrastructure Division Lines: 25 Sender: essenl@aztec (Lee Essen) Distribution: world Message-ID: <2d4tns$4rr@zeus.swindon.rtsg.mot.com> References: <1993Nov22.075226.24701@serval.net.wsu.edu> <blackw.754075172@sfu.ca> <1993Nov23.235352.10020@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1993Nov25.043213.16372@news.yale.edu> <1993Nov25.202115.26494@serval.net.wsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: aztec.swindon.rtsg.mot.com In article <1993Nov25.202115.26494@serval.net.wsu.edu>, msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith) writes: |> In article <1993Nov25.043213.16372@news.yale.edu> mrami@minerva.cis.yale.edu (Marc A. Ramirez) writes: |> > |> >In article <1993Nov23.235352.10020@serval.net.wsu.edu> msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith) writes: |> > |> >Since you already had passwords set up and then tried to install DES, the |> >decryption method is different, and your decrypted password becomed |> >garbldygook. (I've already had to break into my system because of this.) |> >You might want to erase them and re-enter them. |> > |> Tried that already. I've also tried empty password fields in the passwd |> file. |> |> Mark I've had problems with empty password fields and XDM (admittedly on NetBSD). It seems that XDM will not cope with blank passwords. -- MIS Technical Support Email: essenl@aztec.swindon.rtsg.mot.com Motorola Ltd Phone: +44 793 545336 16 Euroway, Blagrove Swindon, Wiltshire SN5 8YW