Re: su 1.16:rh6:password hashing bug?

[Signal 11]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> UNIX behavior for 25 years.  Some systems are now converting over to
> using more characters as being significant and doing other security
> enhancements.

That's rather odd because I use shadow passwords / md5.  Does su
detect this and check more than the first 8 characters?  And yes,
my root pass is more than 8 char.


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