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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!news.uni-mainz.de!wilbur!grefen From: grefen@wilbur.uni-mainz.de (Stefan Grefen) Subject: Re: crypt problems Message-ID: <AHY50LF@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Sender: grefen@wilbur (Stefan Grefen) Nntp-Posting-Host: wilbur Organization: Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz References: <BsrwJG.tq@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 12:09:06 GMT Lines: 15 In article <BsrwJG.tq@chinet.chi.il.us>, 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. Obviously it knows nothing about the Obviously xdm knows nothing about encryption :-) you have to recompile xdm. |> Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us Enjoy Stefan -- Stefan Grefen --- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz --- Germany Email: grefen@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de --- Phone: 06131/392415