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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!news.yale.edu!minerva!mrami From: mrami@minerva.cis.yale.edu (Marc A. Ramirez) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.0 rel. xdm-des won't login Message-ID: <1993Nov25.043213.16372@news.yale.edu> Sender: news@news.yale.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: minerva.cis.yale.edu Organization: Yale University References: <1993Nov22.075226.24701@serval.net.wsu.edu> <blackw.754075172@sfu.ca> <1993Nov23.235352.10020@serval.net.wsu.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 04:32:13 GMT Lines: 28 In article <1993Nov23.235352.10020@serval.net.wsu.edu> msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith) writes: >In article <blackw.754075172@sfu.ca> blackw@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard Blackwell) writes: >>msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith) writes: >> >>>Greetings, >> >>>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 >> >I set up passwords first off. All accounts have passwords. > >Mark 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. Marc. -------------------- mrami@minerva.cis.yale.edu -- ------------ These opinions are mine, wholly mine, and no one's but mine.