Bug 55180

Summary:	nis client authentication failures
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Network	Reporter:	Need Real Name <p.chiu>
Component:	RHN/Other	Assignee:	Cristian Gafton <gafton>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	RHN Devel	CC:	alikins, bduplant, bretm, cturner, gdk, mihai.ibanescu, pjones, srevivo, taw
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2001-10-26 17:45:12 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Need Real Name 2001-10-26 17:45:07 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0)

Description of problem:
All NIS accounts are rejected from logging on the system.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set up a RH 7.2 system on a brand new Athlon PC.
2.Select NIS access with a given NIS domain and server.
3.Reboot machine and attempt to log on using any NIS accounts.


Actual Results:    All access are declined.  System logs reveals 
authentication failures.



Expected Results:  Successful log in.

The same set of NIS accounts works okay on a system installed with RedHat 
7.1, using the same set up as above.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Need Real Name 2001-10-30 08:24:26 UTC

I believe I have now worked out the problem.

The authentication process has apparantly been changed in that
it will accept the first 8 characters as a valid password.

Before RH 7.2, the authentication will accept the first 8 characters
of a password as well as the full password if it is longer than 8 
characters.

Under RH 7.2, if the full password longer then 8 characters is
supplied, login is rejected.  The user has to enter the first 8 
characters of a password to log on.

This poses an embarrassment in a mixed NIS environment.