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Re: [cobalt-users] Password Problems?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Password Problems?
- From: Chris Saunders <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Oct 30 22:13:53 2000
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
You can only have 8 character passwords in Linux.
ChriS
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On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Juzzin wrote:
> 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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