On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 09:34:16AM -0800, pedro noticioso wrote:
> btw, I serously doubt psswords sent plain text across
> the network by Xdm|Gdm|Kdm, Id have to check that 8/

xdm/gdm/kdm never actually "send a password": they are running on the
same machine that is doing the authentication.  But when the user types
his password, character-by-character, it goes over the network plaintext
inside X11 packets.

- Jake



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