Bug 55015

Summary:	login useing more than 8 charachter password and NIS
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <montekamps>
Component:	passwd	Assignee:	Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	njop.olsson, pknirsch, redhat.com
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Description Need Real Name 2001-10-24 13:11:58 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.8 sun4u)

Description of problem:
if you have a login with a password that has more than 8 charachters you
can only login using the first 8 .. it doesnt truncate it as it seemed to
in previous versions. ie. if you enter in all 9 charachters it wont let you
login .. you enter in 8 it will. 

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set password to any password that is 9 charachters
2. try to login (fail)
3. try to login useing the first 8 charachters (pass)
	

Expected Results:  it should truncate everything after the 8th charachter
and let you login

Additional info:

Comment 1 Kurt Swanson 2001-10-31 00:06:51 UTC

This was discussed recently in redhat-list.  It seems that the problem is due to
a change in crypt--as the problem only occurs for those using crypt passwords. 
Using authconfig to switch to md5 passwords is a work-around.  However, all
existing users need to enter new passwords--not acceptable for systems with
large numbers of users...

Comment 2 Richard Warner 2001-11-13 00:53:24 UTC

The priority of this should be high.  The renders RH 7.2 totally unusable in
multivendor
enterprise environments.

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2001-11-13 03:48:49 UTC

There was a pam module  fix posted on redhat's web site on 10/31/2001 in 7.2 erratta/bug fixes... I have installed it on my 7.2 systems and NIS 
logins work just fine now.  Good luck.

Comment 4 Jindrich Novy 2004-09-16 13:00:09 UTC

Hello, this is fortunately not reproducible any more ;-) Closing this.

cheers,
Jindrich