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Description of problem:
I have a RH7.1 machine acting as an NIS server for a variety of
linux and solaris machine. I was adding some new machines to the domain - one 
of which was a RH7.2 box. Some users were unable to log into this machine. Upon 
investigation i tracked this down to a problem with passwords greater than 8 
characters long. All other machines ignore characters after the 8th one in the 
password while the RH7.2 box treats all characters as significant. Typing only 
the first eight characters of the password allows a user to log in.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add an NIS client to an existing domain with a non RH7.2 NIS server
2. Try and log in with a password greater than 8 characters
	

Actual Results:  Login will fail

Expected Results:  Login should suceed since it should be backwards compatible 
with previous out of the box setups.

Additional info:

I have also seen the same problem reported on comp.os.linux.security

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