From: James Purdon (purdon@cons1.mit.edu)
Date: 03/15/93 

From: purdon@cons1.mit.edu (James Purdon)
Subject: Re: SLS: xdm doesn't care about shadow-passwd?
Date: 15 Mar 1993 17:08:33 GMT

In article <1993Mar14.052131.8883@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Adrian.Wallaschek@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Adrian Wallaschek) writes:
>Hi everybody,
>
>I suppose the following has been already noticed. I'm aware of a possibility to
>find it in some FAQ, despite of this I dare to ask:
>
> 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?

I don't know if its in the FAQ, but reading one of the 2000+ messages
that were in this newsgroup when I got SLS distribution 99pl4 and
installed it on my FastMicro ValueLine Special (25 MHz 486SX, 4Mb RAM,
64K external cache, Conner 80Mb IDE drive, TVGA9000 video card with 512k
if any one keeps a database of this stuff) told me there's a program
called "unconvpw" (or something similar) in /etc which one can run to
copy the encrypted password strings in the shadow password file to
/etc/passwd (and make xdm work as expected). It works for me. I
suppose you could also copy them by hand. Of course, you loose the
security benefits of shadow password files :) 

-- 
Jim

Once I was single.  Now I am married.