From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux; , en_US.UTF-8, en_US, en) Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.i set root password to "1234567890qwertyuiop" 2.and then login with user : "root " and password : "123456789" 3.and successfull login with out error (this bug in x and consol occured ) 4. actually linux support 8 charachter for password !! Additional info:
This depends on the encryption system used You are seeing a side effect of 75746 I suspect unless you are using NIS *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75746 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.