Re: passwd

[dyer <phil.dyer@mindspring.com>]

Vincent Deffontaines wrote:

> 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???

8 characters

>
>
> 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
>
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