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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1989 ; Wed, 24 Feb 93 13:00:15 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) Subject: Re: xdm for XFree86 1.2 & crypt In-Reply-To: hissam@source.asset.com's message of Mon, 22 Feb 1993 03:23:52 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.93Feb22220751@omicron.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@Rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <1993Feb22.032352.33872@source.asset.com> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 04:07:51 GMT Lines: 30 In article <1993Feb22.032352.33872@source.asset.com> hissam@source.asset.com (Scott A. Hissam) writes: I think xdm is compiled with crypt.c as opposed as crypt_dummy.c README.386bsd from XFree86 1.2 directory on agate.berkeley.edu says that this is the other way around. Yep, the README.386BSD was wrong. I've uploaded a revised README.386BSD and XFree86-1.2-386BSD-errata and put an xdm linked with crypt_dummy.c in /pub/incoming/XFree86-1.2 on agate.berkeley.edu (128.32.136.1). If you don't see it there, Chris has moved it to /pub/386BSD/0.1-ports/XFree86-1.2. The following item has been added to the errata. Rich 5: xdm in XFree86-1.2-bin.tar.Z uses des (encryption) contrary to the README.386BSD. This distribution was unintentionally built with a working crypt (des). If you have replaced crypt on your system (see Chris Demetriou's /usr/386bsd.errata/crypt.instructions) and use encrypted passwords you can use the xdm binary in XFree86-1.2-bin.tar.Z. If you have not replaced crypt, get XFree86-1.2-xdm-nodes.tar.Z and install the xdm it contains. Otherwise xdm will not accept passwords. This latter xdm binary uses the 386BSD 0.1's dummy crypt routine that prints the message 'Crypt not present in system' in the xdm-errors file each time a user logs in. You can ignore this. It merely tells you that passwords in /etc/passwd are unencrypted.