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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
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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>
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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.


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