Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 02:15:22 -0500 From: "default" <default013subscriptions@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Logins without full password! Message-ID: <OE46dVzDpubxcbz37cf000049f8@hotmail.com>
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Hi, I just noticed that on one of my FreeBSD machines, one is able to login via any means by typing in only the first 8 or so characters of the password. You can also type the first 8 characters and anything else after that, for example if the password were password, one could type: 'passwordxxxxxxx' and be able to login! I'm not too worried as this is only a test machine that I keep on my internal network, however, I would like to know how it works... Is this normal? How does one disable this? Thanks, Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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