[Gllug] user has two passwords?

[Jonathan Dye]

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?

JD

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