On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote: > I have shadow passwords turned on, under Debian 1.3. However, > the X login started automatically at boot does not recognize > any of the valid userID/password combinations.
You're probably referring to the "xdm" login. > My assumption is that X does not know about shadow passwords, > and from my investigations it seems I may be correct. This is indeed correct. The problem is, that there is a separate "xdm-shadow" to handle shadow passwords. The bug is with xbase, which does not properly install xdm-shadow when you've enabled shadow passwords. If you first install xbase and then turn on shadow support, this problem does not arise. > 1) Is there a setting to make it work? The solutions are: - change to the virtual console with Ctrl-Alt-F1, log in as root and type shadowconfig off but then you lose shadow support - change to the virtual console with Ctrl-Alt-F1, log in as root and type /etc/init.d/xdm stop # because you can't update it when it runs shadowconfig on # makes xdm xdm-shadow /etc/init.d/xdm start # if this were windows, you'd now reboot :-) - wait for the release of 1.3.1, which will have a fixed xbase. > 2) If !1, then how do I turn off the automatic X boot-up > so I can startx after logging on? "man xdm". No, seriously, look in /etc/X11/config, you'll find the lines start-xdm xdm-start-server These lines were placed there by the xbase configure script when you answered "yes" to the question to run xdm. Anyway, comment those lines out with a "#" and xdm is gone. If you later decide that you want xdm back, you can always just uncomment them. When you have x running, be sure to install tkman. Makes reading manpages a lot more comfortable. Good luck, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .