[Gllug] user has two passwords?

[Kim Hawtin]

> > >at the console or using ssh I can login as user "steve" with psw
> > >"abcxxx" or psw "abcyyy".  The passwords are similar but not the same.
> > Not sure if this is still true but I know only the first 8 characters of
> > the password used to be used so abcdefgh1111 is the same as abcdefgh222222
> > and also the same as abcdefgh
> > It's probably dependant on how your password system is set up but could
> > this be the problem?
> 
> This is why MD5 passwords were introduced - should take note of up 
> to 255 odd characters.

might be a good time to learn about PAM ...

that would be my guess as to why strange things like that happen...
PAM can use multiple sources to authenticate from.

yours,

kim

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