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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!lclark!news.reed.edu!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!EU.net!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!news.win.tue.nl!wzv.win.tue.nl!gvr.win.tue.nl!guido From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: xdm: response Date: 15 Jan 1994 10:28:49 GMT Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 25 Message-ID: <2h8gh2$joe@wzv.win.tue.nl> References: <ghBlS0y00VBN0DWr0l@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gvr.win.tue.nl Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> writes: >thanks to all who responded. to answer your questions: >my /etc/master.passwd file lists the passwords encrypted. so unless >there is more than one type of encryption algorythm used across >FreeBSD systems, i have the standard DES installed. It might also be that you have scrambled passwords. This was distributed to overcome the disadvantage of having plain passwords in the master.passwd while being able to distribute it to other countries. You can check what you have by looking in /usr/src/lib/libcrypt for sources on the method being used. >i am using the xdm-des binary which came with Xfree86. it is the only >xdm binary i see. >help? -Guido -- Guido van Rooij | Internet: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl Bisschopsmolen 16 | Phone: ++31.40.461433 5612 DS Eindhoven | ((12+144+20)+3*sqrt(4))/7 The Netherlands | +(5*11)=9^2+0