passwd

[Vincent Deffontaines <vdeffont@ifrance.com>]

I just found out something I find freak on my debian 2.1 system

My root password   used to be "panoramix2021"...
Today by mistake I typed "panoramix", and got in!!!

how comes? is that normal? I dont find it normal actually
is that a bug? is that supposed to be working that way?
how many characteers are passwords supposed to be limited by??? 9???


now I tried something else
I set my password to a 9 characters one
lets say "poipoipoi" which is 9 charaters
you can type "poipoipoi" followed by anything... you just get in as
well...
I think there's a problem about that too (I guess its the same...)


so please tell me

Hope that can help...

Vincent Deffontaines
France