Re: [cobalt-users] Password Problems??

["Arsalan Mahmud" <arsalan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

passwords in telnet are only valid till 8 or 9 digits in unix as far as I
remember. So even if you have a fifteen word password for ftp etc. you can
login with just 8 or 9 digits in a shell.


Arsalan



----- Original Message -----
From: "Juzzin" <juzzin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 9:45 AM
Subject: [cobalt-users] Password Problems??


> Hello,
>
>     I logged into my account today, and su'd to root. However, I
mistakenly
> made an error in the latter numeric part of my password. For example,
> instead of using "samplePass3421", I used: "samplePass342". Regardless, I
> was able to log into root, despite the fact that I truncated my password.
> When I tried other variations, I found that the numeric portion of my
> password was irrelevant. I would not think that this behavior is
desirable.
> Can someone try and duplicate this behavior?
>
> Best Regards,
> Justin Howard
> juzzin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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