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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!fauern!fauna!camelot!husemann From: husemann@camelot.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Dirk Husemann) Subject: Re: crypt problems References: <BsrwJG.tq@chinet.chi.il.us> Message-ID: <Bst8s5.M0y@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Sender: news@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 08:26:29 GMT Lines: 24 randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes: > I installed the crypt patches and re-compiled the files mentioned > in a recent posting. My passwd files are now nicely encrypted. > However, xdm (in the X11 release for bsd) will not recoginize a > password typed in. If I remove the "*" in /etc/passwd, xdm will > accept a null password. I had this problem with a number of applications --- it turned out in my case that in order to be able to read the shadow password files (pwd.db, spwd.db, or master.passwd) the application needed an s-bit (at least that did fix it, perhaps I'm doing something wrong here also 8=) > Obviously it knows nothing about the > new bsd pseudo shadow files. Tried recompiling xdm, but no go. Try giving Xdm an s-bit. Dirk Eunuchs is not a trademark of AT&T. ---