[25728] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.2.30: login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jun 24 14:25:08 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Ken T Takusagawa <kenta@mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:24:54 -0400
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On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 00:09, Ken T Takusagawa wrote:
> Yes, setting the root password to something <= 8 characters
> "fixes" it. But of course, I would like to have the ability
> to have long passwords work on this machine, even under
> text-mode console.
I have submitted a patch to fix this problem, and expect it to go into
the 9.3.8 patch release. Thanks for reporting this.
