thanks go to
Stephane BRANCHOUX <stephane.branchoux_at_univ-perp.fr>
-- who some time ago had already posted a solution to the problem -- i
missed it by searching thru the archives -- sorry!!
and
Kai Grunau <kgrunau_at_ifm.uni-kiel.de>
both kindly offered me an aftp-download of the patch for
dtgreet & dtlogin
that compaq has released, but somehow (why???) did not put on their
web-site.
yours,
torsten mohrbach
----------------------------------------
---------ORIGINAL QUESTION--------------
> dear fellow-managers,
>
> some time ago, Richard Young posted a problem & a summary concerning a
> problem i beleive i ran into now too:
>
> http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/tru64-unix-managers/1999/07/msg00310.html
>
> he reported that there seemed to be a bug in this patch for 4.0E that
> affects any login with 8 chars & that Compaq would be releasing a patch
> for that problem. (CDE login gives "wrong password, try again' -- normal
> terminal login works fine)
>
> searching on Compaqs patch pages i didn't find a patch which explicitly
> mentions that problem
> (and applying the 3 security patches ssrt0614u/ ssrt0615u/ ssrt0617u/
> didn't help much further, either...)
>
> is there a patch out yet??
>
> cheers,
> torsten
>
>
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* torsten mohrbach
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Received on Thu Dec 09 1999 - 08:29:58 NZDT