Description of problem:

My root and user account passwords are greater in length than 8 characters.  My 
user accounts required the entire password be entered correctly for 
authentication to be successful.  However, my root account only requires that 
at least the correct first 8 characters of my password be entered: anything 
that follows, if any, is ignored.

I don't know if the same is the case for any other lengths of passwords less 
than 8 characters.

I don't remember if the corrent password was set during the installation 
process or if it was changed using 'passwd' post install.  I think it's likely 
the latter. 

I tried resetting my password to the same value using 'passwd': that seemed to 
fix the problem.  But I don't understand what caused the user authentication 
process to ignore all but the first 8 characters in the root password.

This is deeply troubling... 





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

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Actual results:
only the first 8 characters are required for successful authentication: any 
that follow, if any, are ignored

Expected results:
should require the entire password for authentication to be successful

Additional info: