Bug 7834 - Login Passwords
Summary: Login Passwords
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: authconfig
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Preston Brown
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-12-16 08:33 UTC by norin
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-12-16 17:09:36 UTC
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Description norin 1999-12-16 08:33:16 UTC 
Hi...i discoverd one thing, regarding the password to root access...

at the login prompt..
login as root
and your password..
don4t press enter ...just keep typing what ever you want
and you will be logged on...
shame thing if i login using su via ssh...
mabye this isn4t a bug but..it sure is rather strange..
as it it doesn4t care what u type afterwards..

Regards Peter
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-12-16 17:09:59 UTC 
Normal crypt()ed passwords have a limit of eight characters.

If you want longer passwords, run 'authconfig' and select
MD5 passwords.
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