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.

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