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