On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:35:23PM +0200, 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???
Normal crypt() passwords are only unique to 8 digits. For longer passwords, edit /etc/login.defs to enable MD5 passwords, then change your password again (to reencrypt with MD5). It's not a bug, it is normal. Ben