[26124] in Athena Bugs
Re: su and xlogin ignore digits after 8th character of root
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Oct 14 12:14:49 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Erica H Peterson <astronut@mit.edu>
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This behavior is expected on Solaris, as far as I know.
This behavior is also expected on Linux when /etc/sysconfig/authconfig
contains "USEMD5=no". If you change the "no" to "yes" and re-set the
root password, the system should be able to distinguish between
passwords beyond the eighth character.
Athena does not touch /etc/sysconfig/authconfig, so its value depends on
how the system was installed. There is nothing about the Athena 9.3.12
patch release which ought to have affected the value, so I suspect that
it was not an update issue.
