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From: bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding)
Subject: Re: xdm lack of security
Date: 29 Aug 1993 07:22:32 GMT

In a previous article, sreekar@panix.com (Sreekar Shastry) says:

>
>Whenever I log in from xdm and type in any valid login name all I have
>to do is type enter or anything and I will log in, even for root!
>
>I am running the full Slackware linux distribution.
>
>Thanks for any help.

This will be fixed soon. The xdm binary included does not support shadow
passwords. Neither does rsh, I'm told.

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Patrick Volkerding
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