On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 01:51:34PM -0400, Tomislav Renic wrote: > Thanks for the help guys. That worked like a charm. > > I have another problem/question for the sparc crew. > > When I su root on my sparc machine from a regular user, and it asks for the > root password, it allows me to login with the password just fine, however, > if I append anything to the end of the password such as a number or an extra > character or two, it still allows me to login. > > I can't see this being by design.
Yes, it is by design. Standard crypt() is only siginificant to 8 characters of the password. When you installed your system, it likely asked if you want to use MD5 passwords. You should have said "yes" :) Check the files in /etc/pam.d/ (mainly passwd). Add the md5 option and change your password so that it is encrypted using an MD5 hash. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
