[26129] in Athena Bugs
Re: su and xlogin ignore digits after 8th character of root
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Oct 15 12:47:31 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Husain Ali Al-Mohssen <husain@mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:44:47 -0400
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On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 09:15, Husain Ali Al-Mohssen wrote:
> Doesn't it seem absurd to you to have this setting at all let alone have
> it set to no?
Well, it's Red Hat's decision, not ours, but I assume the reasoning is
that if you want to share a passwd file between Red Hat Linux and
another system which doesn't support MD5 passwords, you can't be using
MD5 passwords.
