Re: password insecurity

[Eric Peters]

define old password new password examples

i believe only teh first 8 characters in a password are unique - any
additional characters are fluff

that this case?

Eric

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Da M. Kadre wrote:

> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?
> I have changed users passwords with ./vpasswd and you can still login with
> tho old password, new password , and any string that begins with the
> password plus additional characters.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Da M. Kadre
>