[ale] Login Problems > window manager

[Nick Grimmig]

well, I have NO shadowed passwds on the system.  the version of the OS
is redhat 4.2 / 2.0.30 kernel. 
	what do I have to do to configure xdm to see the passwds? 


Steven A. Duchene wrote:
> 
> Nick Grimmig asked:
> > After starting xdm,  trying to login to x yields " incorrect login"
> >       this happens for all accounts, root included.  What am I doing wrong?
> > --
> Typically this happens when you have shadow passwords or pam configured and
> the version of xdm you have isn't the right one. If the reverse is true
> (shadow version of xdm but no shadow passwds) might also cause the same thing.
> To tell if you have shadow passwords look in /etc/passwd, if there are
> encrypted passwds there you don't. If the passwd field for all users has
> all asterisks you have shadow passwds. I am not sure how to tell if pam
> is configured.
> 
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> Steve DuChene              sad at hpuerca.atl.hp.com               1-800-633-3600
> 
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>                   X/CDE/Vue/xterminal/graphics support team
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Nick Grimmig, 
UNIX System Administrator
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