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Re: passwd

8 characaters is normal for unix passwords

nate

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On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, 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???
> 
> 
> 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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