[Gllug] user has two passwords?

[Alain Williams]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 04:25:38PM +0100, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> At 16:32 05/11/01 -0000, you wrote:
> >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.

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Alain Williams

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