Password weirdness in Mandrake 8.1

[Robert Dege]

I don't believe that this is correct.  The old login scheme would only
accept the first 8 characters, but with newer programs superceding (such
as PAM, Kerberos, etc), I believe that it nows takes up to the first 16
characters.

I could dbl-chk the PAM site, but that would take too much effort ;)

> 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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Dege

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