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Re: comp.os.linux.announce backlog

On 7 Jun 1997, Guy Maor wrote:

> The problem is simple:
> 
> `shadowconfig on' will edit /etc/init.d/xdm to run xdm-shadow, but
> only if that file exists.
> 
> If a user switches to shadow passwords before even installing X, then
> xdm will not work.  Simply running `shadowconfig on' again will fix
> it.

So xdm will fail, both in a bare install and in an upgrade, were
xdm-shadow is not installed at the time of the upgrade. That means that if
xbase is installed as the last step in the "by hand" portion of the
upgrade (possibly xlib6 as well) then the rest of the upgrade will go
smoothly.

During a "fresh" install the enabling of shadow passwords (even though
offered by the installation software) should be postponed untill after the
installation of xbase.

Does this sound like a work around?

Dwarf
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