Bug 74231 - Does not allow usernames longer than 9 chars
Summary: Does not allow usernames longer than 9 chars
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: pam_krb5
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-09-18 12:14 UTC by Zoltan Arpadffy
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:46 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-10-18 14:42:57 UTC
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Description Zoltan Arpadffy 2002-09-18 12:14:05 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0)

Description of problem:
If kerberos support is enabled, users that have a longer username than 9 chars 
can not log in... even root can not su - to that user account.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RH73 with kerberos support or upgrade RH72 system that had kerberos 
support.
2. create an user that has username longer than 9 chars (adduser u234567890)
3. set a password for that user (passwd u234567890)
4. ftp 0 (username: u234567890 ) - it will fail
5. su - u234567890 - it will fail as well	

Actual Results:  Invalid password

Expected Results:  Successful login.

Additional info:

This bug came in when I upgraded from 7.2 to 7.3.
During some period I used kerberos, than I turd off the kdc etc kerberos 
services, and the system was working perfect.
But after the upgrade not even one user with longer username could log in.

SOLUTION:
- in authconf remove kerberos support.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2006-08-05 04:21:33 UTC
Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do want to
make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks.

Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc.
They are maintained by the Fedora Legacy project (http://www.fedoralegacy.org/)
for security updates only. If this is a security issue, please reassign to the
'Fedora Legacy' product in bugzilla. Please note that Legacy security update
support for these products will stop on December 31st, 2006.

If this is not a security issue, please check if this issue is still present
in a current Fedora Core release. If so, please change the product and version
to match, and check the box indicating that the requested information has been
provided.

If you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, please note that
Fedora Legacy security update support for these products will stop on December
31st, 2006. You are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release
or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may
be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/.

Any bug still open against Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9 at the end of 2006 will be
closed 'CANTFIX'. Again, if this bug still exists in a current release, or is a
security issue, please change the product as necessary. We thank you for your
help, and apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point.


Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2006-10-18 14:42:57 UTC
Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still
running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a
current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable.
Some information on which option may be right for you is available at
http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/.

Closing as CANTFIX.


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