From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 12:00:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01681 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:00:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from inet.chipweb.ml.org (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA01561 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:00:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Message-Id: <199808061900.MAA01561@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 682 invoked from network); 6 Aug 1998 18:59:07 -0000 Received: from speedy.chipweb.ml.org (172.16.1.1) by inet.chipweb.ml.org with SMTP; 6 Aug 1998 18:59:07 -0000 X-Sender: ludwigp2@mail-r X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 11:58:40 -0700 To: John , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: password length limit? In-Reply-To: References: <35C5F93B.2412D6F8@acm.org> <35C5F93B.2412D6F8@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:02 AM 8/6/98 +0100, John wrote: >In article <35C5F93B.2412D6F8@acm.org>, Klaus A. Brunner > writes >>On my FreeBSD 2.2.6 system, I created a user "test1" and assigned it the >>password "asdfgjkl99" (10 characters). However, I can log in using the >>passwords "asdfgjkl" (8 chars) or "asdfgjkl33" (first 8 chars >>identical). It seems that only the first 8 characters of the password >>are significant. > >Only the first 8 chars are significant. As to whether this is a bug or a >feature, I guess it depends on your point of view! > >(As an aside, ssh also behaves in this way) > >-- >John I think only the first 8 characters become significant *after* you install the DES and kerberos libraries. On my 2.2.6 laptop, I installed DES simply so I could su more quickly (normally my root password is >20 characters, just to be paranoid). After installing DES, i only need to enter the first 8 characters and I'm root! --Ludwig Pummer ludwigp@bigfoot.com ludwigp@chipweb.ml.org ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message