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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:
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.