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- From: wyvern@gnu.ai.mit.edu (The Wyvern)
- Subject: Shadow passwords and xdm/ftpd
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.085655.9597@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
- Organization: Free Software Foundation
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 08:56:55 GMT
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- Has anyone had any luck getting either xdm or ftpd to work with
- the shadow password package? I tried recompiling xdm with the
- original sources + linux diffs with -DUSESHADOW, but upon
- a user logging in, something strange happens (for one thing
- olvwm won't source the .openwin-menu file properly - I think
- this has something to do with it not finding the right user)
- and it executes an xterm, which also fails after a second or two
- and you are returned to the xdm login prompt.
- And yes, I do have the xdm startup files configured correctly,
- because the xdm that comes with XFree86 has had no problems.
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- Also, ftp/ftpd won't work correctly with shadow passwords,
- although I modified the routine in ftpd that gets the password via
- getpwnam() to use getspnam() instead. With or without
- this change ftp locks up immediately after the username is
- entered. You can kill it externally or by sending SIGQUIT,
- but this leaves an ftpd process lying around.
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