On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 15:34 -0300, Antonio Souto wrote: > You can happily login using only the first 8 characters of your > password and even type whatever you want after the 8th!
> Desperate for hints. Its to do with what the passwords are encrypted with in /etc/shadow (or /etc/passwd), think it defaults to DES. Not sure about yellow pages, but looking at system_auth on my pc the pam_unix line has it to be encrypted in MD5. password sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so nullok md5 shadow use_authtok /usr/share/doc/pam-0.77-r6/modules has some docs that you might be helpful to you... all the best, Richard... -- [email protected] mailing list
