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Bug 7834

Summary:	Login Passwords
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	norin
Component:	authconfig	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	1999-12-16 17:09:36 UTC	Type:	---
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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.