From: dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil) Subject: Re: SLS: xdm doesn't care about shadow-passwd? Date: 14 Mar 1993 06:31:43 GMT
In a previous article, Adrian.Wallaschek@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Adrian Wallaschek) says:
> Has anyone prepared an xdm-binary that is completely working with the
> latest SLS? My version (0.99.6 SLS) doesn't care about the shadow-passwd
> as you can login e.g. as root with any password you can imagine like
> bar, foo, bla ... (exciting, isn't it ?). Does anyone have a fix other
> than copying the password back from shadow to passwd?
There is source for an xdm with shadow passwords on sunsite. I had some
problems with compiling it; it seemed to expect a function to be in
libshadow.a that was not there, so I had to recompile libshadow and add the
missing function by hand. If anyone wants me to, I suppose I could put
upload my version to sunsite, although I do not know enough about UNIX in
general to say that I have done everything right in my compilation. i.e. my
compile might not be secure.
-- Damien Neil dpn2@po.cwru.edu "Until somebody debugs reality, the best Case Western Reserve University I can do is a quick patch here and there." CMPS/EEAP double majoring masochist - Erik Green