One of our systems running 'Scientific Linux Fermi LTS release 4.9' is exhibiting some odd password behavior.
I can log in using a legitimate password for an account, but I can also log in when I add random characters at the -end- of the legitimate password. Shortened legitimate passwords don't work, nor do nonlegitimate passwords. It's like the password check stops when it sees a match but doesn't check beyond that point. uname -a gives 'Linux <redacted>.phys.northwestern.edu 2.6.9-101.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 20 12:44:12 CDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux' Any thoughts?
