[26127] in Athena Bugs
Re: su and xlogin ignore digits after 8th character of root
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Husain Ali Al-Mohssen)
Fri Oct 15 09:17:26 2004
From: Husain Ali Al-Mohssen <husain@mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Linux was installed identically (using the same boot CD) on all the
computers the only difference is that one of them was upgraded and one
was not.
Doesn't it seem absurd to you to have this setting at all let alone have
it set to no?
I'll proceed to change it and update the root password but again, I am
sure we did not make this change.
Yours,
Husain
On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 12:14, Greg Hudson wrote:
> 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.
>
