From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12smp i686) Description of problem: Installed out-of-box Redhat 7.2 on a box. User with a 9 character password complained that he couldn't login. I applied the updated pam-0.75-19 errata package along with the other two packages included in that errata. Problem was not fixed. We are using an NIS password file. This user can login by just typing the first 8 characters of his password. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use NIS password file with DES encryption. 2.Have user create a 9 character password. 3.Try logging in through KDE or via telnet. Actual Results: Login is rejected. Expected Results: pam should have ignored input characters beyond 8. Additional info: This problem was solved with earlier Redhat releases and is now back. Despite closing notation in another bug I saw in Bugzilla (Sorry, I don't have the number readily available), the problem is not fixed.
Further investigation revealed that this bug report should be canceled. The pam-unix module of pam-0.75-14 would reject 9 character passwords but that is actually fixed with pam-0.75-19. The password rejection behavior occurs when a user with such a password tries to login via kdm. I will check into this some more and, if necessary, file a different bug report.