On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, r. tolga wrote:
> Ughh! Do you really think that this would be a solution,
> and a good "suggestion". In this case would you give every user
> the root password?
He never said to give it out, he said _try_ this
> John Aldrich wrote:
> >
> > Suggestion: Try changing your USER password as "root." That should work....
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Al Niessner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: expert-mandrake-linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 6:26 PM
> > Subject: [expert] changing passwords
> >
> > >
> > > I run 'passwd' in my user account to change my password as one would
> > > expect. Lets pretend my password is currently 'peanut' for now -- no
> > > this is not my real password and never has been. So, 'passwd' asks for
> > > my current password to verify that I am who I am and I type it in. It
> > > then wants a new password. I have decided to make the new one tougher
> > > so I used 'h4+J,8eFkjS;wEttl4K^2' -- or something like that. 'passwd'
> > > refuses the new password on grounds that it is too similar to my
> > > previous one. I find this really hard to believe since it is much
> > > longer and contains non-alphabet characters unlike my first one. To
> > > test this problem some more, I tried various length passwords with at
> > > least one non-alphabet character in it and I get the same response. I
> > > then used 'walnut' and my password changed without any problems -- no my
> > > password is not really walnut nor has it ever been. The point is, they
> > > were both simple words,-- meaning, all lower case, all alphabetic
> > > characters , and the same length. I would have thought these two
> > > passwords to be the same even if we ignore they are both nuts. I double
> > > checked and I am using the expanded password capability -- MD5. Any
> > > ideas as to what is wrong here? Oh, I also tried it from root using
> > > 'passwd -u nut' and have the exact same problem -- as I expected but I
> > > had to try it anyways to be complete.
> > >
> > >
> > > Notes:
> > >
> > > I checked the archive and did not find any references for this.
> > >
> > > Platform is Mandrake 6.0
Well lets start with the fact your password is to long, by default only
the first 9 chars are relevent. I've tryed 3 mandrake6.0 boxes 1 cooker
and two redhat i can't reproduce this.
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