Bug 76560

Summary:	User Password bug(unsecure user password)
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ali Reza Bahmani <ar_bahmani>
Component:	redhat-config-users	Assignee:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
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Version:	8.0	Keywords:	Security
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Description Ali Reza Bahmani 2002-10-23 13:46:49 UTC

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.i set root password to "1234567890qwertyuiop"
2.and then login with user : "root " and password : "123456789"
3.and successfull login with out error (this bug in x and consol occured ) 
4. actually linux support 8 charachter for password !!


	

Additional info:

Comment 1 Alan Cox 2002-12-18 18:16:43 UTC

This depends on the encryption system used

You are seeing a side effect of 75746 I suspect unless you are using NIS


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75746 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:50:02 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.