IRIX 5.3 and resetting root password

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 21:07, Jochen Kunz wrote: There's no nsswitch.conf on this machine, and yp's turned off within the /etc/config tree. I'm wondering if it's something within the xdm config that's causing problems. Certainly Xsession has been localised and tries to pipe xauth output to a ssh command using a host on the local network from where the machine came. However I *think* xauth only dictates who can open a connection to the X server, so the fact I'm getting a graphical login up on the display implies to be that this step isn't breaking things. I'll try commenting out the relevant bits and just stick 'xhost +' in there anyway... I'm not sure how xdm does its login and whether there's an xdm-specific option somewhere for using something other than the /etc/passwd file. Trying to untangle the whole X startup process is making my brain hurt - think I'll take a break and fight with it a bit more tomorrow :-) What I really need is a set of xdm config files from a clean IRIX 5.3 install to see how this system differs! cheers, Jules