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Re: Login to X Windows System



Still, questions about your hands, which might one day hold *my* Myst book,
are unsettling to me:

> I have just installed the X Windows system under Debian 2.1 (slink).
> Unfortunately the system won't let me past the log-in prompt. I have tried
> the details for the root account and also for a user I configured during
> setup but alas the program keeps telling me it is an incorrect login.
>
> Any ideas?

Are you using shadow passwords? I seem to recall that xdm needs to be
configured for shadow passwords if it's in use.



Served with a smile, 
-- 
Kerne 


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