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From: msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.0 rel. xdm-des won't login
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Date: 23 Nov 93 23:53:52 GMT
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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