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Re: ksu still only reads 8 characters of password

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Fri May 13 17:01:20 1988

From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: <paul@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 13 May 88 16:32:51 -0400.
Date: Fri, 13 May 88 17:00:35 EDT
The kerberos people know about this problem.  It should be noted here
that BSD-style Unix would quietly take a password longer than eight
characters, but it only used the first eight.

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