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ksu still only reads 8 characters of password

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (paul@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri May 13 16:33:22 1988

From: <paul@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 13 May 88 16:32:51 EDT
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

People are setting and using longer-thatn-8-character root instance
passwords, but these fail with ksu and cause lots of confusion.  Ksu
(on every release) seems to think we're still in the land of old Unix
8-character passwords.


					-Paul

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