I wrote: > > This must have reached FAQ status by now: is there a way to get the > SGI-supplied xdm in IRIX 5.3 to authenticate (AFS 3.4beta) client? > It's not quite clear to me what's not happening - I'm not getting "login > incorrect" on the display or "failed:" messages in /var/adm/SYSLOG, but am > seeing (in /var/adm/SYSLOG): > Oct 16 13:58:49 6B:visitor Xsession: grendel: login > Oct 16 13:58:49 3B:visitor Xsession: grendel: Session has no command/arguments > Oct 16 13:58:49 6B:visitor Xsession: grendel: logout > > This does _not_ seem to correlate with simply not being able to read files > in AFS - a hacked up /usr/lib/X11/Xsession file (which works for local > users) is present. > > Any ideas? Workarounds? Thanks to all who responded (Judy Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], R Lindsay Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>). It turns out that *my* problem was that I'd turned on password shadowing, but didn't put non-local (i.e. AFS user) entries in /etc/shadow. It doesn't matter _what_ you put as a password (as long as it's not '*' or the empty string), but IRIX xdm login wants an entry. I'd posit that this is broken behavior... So - if you use password shadowing on IRIX, make sure any user you want to be able to use xdm login has an entry in /etc/shadow. Don't forget about the 8 character password length limitation! Pat Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
