xdm passwordless logins

nia <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Oct 2020 08:10:23 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.devel.x11
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

hi,

xdm is configured by default to disallow logins from accounts
without a password set. this is different to how ttys work,
and means if you have root with no password set you can't
login to the system

is this intentional?

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