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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010822 Description of problem: Passwords > 8 characters can be assigned, but to log in RH 7.2 only accepts the first 8 characters. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run "passwd" as a user, or root 2. change password to something with more than 8 characters 3. try to log in with new password -- incorrect password 4. try to log in with first 8 characters of new password -- succeeds Actual Results: Should be explained clearly in reproduction steps above. Expected Results: I expect it to let me have passwords of > 8 characters. I expect to type (using earlier example) aeiou1234 as my password, and have it accepted. Additional info: This is a FRESH RH 7.2 install + errata patches. The only other software I've installed on it is Qmail + ucspi-tcp + daemontools, and imap-2000. To see a listing of RPMs installed, go to: http://ed.cates.net/rpmlist I'm listing this as a security issue, as it pertains to passwords.
You might have a look at bug #55011, this may be the same problem.
This appears to be the same bug fixed in he errata advisory at https://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2001-149.html If installing this update does not fix the problem, please reopen this bug ID. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55011 ***