On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 02:44:12AM -0000, Nidhin Mohan wrote: > if you type the password steve1234 or steve123***** ( ie if you suffix > anything after your password ) machine allows to login
This sounds like the very old user-admin regression that fell back to 3DES passwords. If you make sure you have an up-to-date system and then change your password, the 8-character limit should go away. -- Kees Cook Ubuntu Security Team -- Login Error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/665454 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
