Bug 89974
| Summary: | root password of length greater than 8 charachters: any characters, if any, following the first 8 characters of the password are ignored for authentication | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <ecsoln> |
| Component: | getty_ps | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | athlon | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-04-30 18:04:25 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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If you use MD5 encryption for your root password, it will work fine. crypt() style encryption only supports the first 8 characters. |
Description of problem: My root and user account passwords are greater in length than 8 characters. My user accounts required the entire password be entered correctly for authentication to be successful. However, my root account only requires that at least the correct first 8 characters of my password be entered: anything that follows, if any, is ignored. I don't know if the same is the case for any other lengths of passwords less than 8 characters. I don't remember if the corrent password was set during the installation process or if it was changed using 'passwd' post install. I think it's likely the latter. I tried resetting my password to the same value using 'passwd': that seemed to fix the problem. But I don't understand what caused the user authentication process to ignore all but the first 8 characters in the root password. This is deeply troubling... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 8.0 psyche How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: only the first 8 characters are required for successful authentication: any that follow, if any, are ignored Expected results: should require the entire password for authentication to be successful Additional info: