Password weirdness in Mandrake 8.1

[deadpoint at adelphia.net]

unix only recognizes the first 8 characters of your password, everything
after that is ignored.

At 12:43 PM 1/15/02 -0800, you wrote:
>I changed my password in RXVT su'd root.  All was well I logged in and out
>multiple times.
>
>Assume my password is <password>1  
>When my screen goes to screen saver (blank screen) which is password
protected.
> I can type <password>1 and get to my desktop
>BUT I can also type <password>  (1 omitted on purpose) and still get in...
>
>Any ideas why the 1 seems to be optional?
>
>JJN
>
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