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by **Sergey I Pan** » Mon, 14 Mar 1994 15:47:47

: ...
: the subject line says it. I've installed xdm, but how do i get it running?
: Which files must be altered? Please respond!
: ...

>In my /etc/inittab I have this line:
>x1:6:wait:/etc/rc.x11
>so If I do a telinit 6, this line is executed. The contents of rc.x11 is:
>--snip snip--
>:
>#! /bin/sh
>#
># rc.6 This file is executed by init(8) when the system is being
># initialized for run level 6 (which usually means X Windows
># on LINUX/Pro).
>#

>#

>#

># Tell the viewers what's going to happen...
>if [ -x /usr/X386/bin/xdm ];then
> echo "Starting up X Windows V.11 R.5..."
> exec /usr/X386/bin/xdm -nodaemon
>else echo "/usr/bin/X386/bin/xdm is missing";fi

>--snip snip--

I tryed this instead of simply putting xdm at thr end of my rc.local
as well as plain inittab change ():

Quote:> [...]
> # BEWARE: where is your getty? in /bin or in /etc? possibly going
> # single user.
> c1:123456:respawn:/etc/getty 9600 tty1
> c2:23456:respawn:/etc/getty 9600 tty2
> c3:3456:respawn:/etc/getty 9600 tty3
> c4:456:respawn:/etc/getty 9600 tty4
> #c6:456:respawn:/etc/getty 9600 tty6
> c6:456:wait:/usr/X386/bin/xdm
> #
> [...]

As before I am getting: Login incorrect
Can someone with xdm succsess story send me a list of processes that he
have running from startup?
What type of passwords are on your machine - shadow or normall (to be honest I
do not know what the differenece ).I am not 100% sure but I believe that I have
normal passwords (Slackware 1.1.1?)

All the best
Sergey

Ron Smits

/*-( My opinions are my opinions, My boss's opinions are his opinions )-*/
/*-( They might not be the same -*/

by **Craig A. Hob** » Tue, 22 Mar 1994 08:22:17

>: ...
>: the subject line says it. I've installed xdm, but how do i get it running?
>: Which files must be altered? Please respond!
>: ...

>>In my /etc/inittab I have this line:
>>x1:6:wait:/etc/rc.x11
>>so If I do a telinit 6, this line is executed. The contents of rc.x11 is:
>>--snip snip--
>>:
>>#! /bin/sh
>>#
>># rc.6 This file is executed by init(8) when the system is being
>># initialized for run level 6 (which usually means X Windows
>># on LINUX/Pro).
>>#

>>#

>>#

>># Tell the viewers what's going to happen...
>>if [ -x /usr/X386/bin/xdm ];then
>> echo "Starting up X Windows V.11 R.5..."
>> exec /usr/X386/bin/xdm -nodaemon
>>else echo "/usr/bin/X386/bin/xdm is missing";fi

>>--snip snip--

>I tryed this instead of simply putting xdm at thr end of my rc.local
>as well as plain inittab change ():

>> [...]
>> # BEWARE: where is your getty? in /bin or in /etc? possibly going
>> # single user.
>> c1:123456:respawn:/etc/getty 9600 tty1
>> c2:23456:respawn:/etc/getty 9600 tty2
>> c3:3456:respawn:/etc/getty 9600 tty3
>> c4:456:respawn:/etc/getty 9600 tty4
>> #c6:456:respawn:/etc/getty 9600 tty6
>> c6:456:wait:/usr/X386/bin/xdm
>> #
>> [...]

>As before I am getting: Login incorrect
>Can someone with xdm succsess story send me a list of processes that he
>have running from startup?
>What type of passwords are on your machine - shadow or normall (to be honest I
>do not know what the differenece ).I am not 100% sure but I believe that I have
>normal passwords (Slackware 1.1.1?)

>All the best
>Sergey

> Ron Smits

>/*-( My opinions are my opinions, My boss's opinions are his opinions )-*/
>/*-( They might not be the same -*/

I'm running slackware 1.0.1 and have had the same problems with xdm. I
got the "Login incorrect" message until I changed my password to be
something shorter than 7 chars. Try making your password short and see
if that clears it up. I can't verify this from a source code point of
view, but I'd bet that xdm is truncating passwords entered in.

Craig

by **R.D. Auchterloun** » Wed, 23 Mar 1994 03:43:10

Quote:>I'm running slackware 1.0.1 and have had the same problems with xdm. I
>got the "Login incorrect" message until I changed my password to be
>something shorter than 7 chars. Try making your password short and see
>if that clears it up. I can't verify this from a source code point of
>view, but I'd bet that xdm is truncating passwords entered in.
>Craig

Correct - in fact _all_ login utils on most other *nixes truncate passwds
to 8 characters. The problem is that on linux login et.al have been
compiled with support for double-length passwords, and thus for a password
of > 8 characters a double length encrypted string is placed in /etc/passwd
and xdm's verification then fails...

I think that the xdm with shadow-password support works OK in this respect
but the non-shadow changes didn't get made.

I have in fact patched my xdm to support double length passwords (note - not
with shadow passwords) - I'll post the code if anyone's interested.

-ray

by **Habib** » Sat, 26 Mar 1994 00:52:46

Hi,

What I did is to include run-level 5 for the xdm. I don't exactly know
if this is correct. The following is the modified (only the xdm part)
of the inittab:

-----
# Runlevel 6 used to be for an X-window only system, until we discovered
# that it throws init into a loop that keeps your load avg at least 1 all
# the time. Thus, there is now one getty opened on tty6. Hopefully no one
# will notice. ;^)
# It might not be bad to have one text console anyway, in case something
# happens to X.
x1:56:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc.6
-----

Could someone please verify let let me know through email?
Thank you.

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Installing xdm & xdm wouldn't let anyone in

Installing xdm & xdm wouldn't let anyone in

Installing xdm & xdm wouldn't let anyone in

Installing xdm & xdm wouldn't let anyone in