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From: appel@ocf.Berkeley.EDU (Shannon D. Appel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Can't login to xdm, but rlogin OK
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Date: 17 Nov 90 19:52:54 GMT
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In-Reply-To: chris@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov's message of 16 Nov 90 20:55:37 GMT

Using Apollo's xdm, we had the same problem for a while.  It turns out that
the Apollo xdm seems to match the entire string against the 8 letters of
the actual password.  The solution seems to be to only type in the first 8
letters of the password.  The real solution?  Who knows....