30 Jan
2000
30 Jan
'00
15:55
Brian Galbraith
However I was still able to log in as root using abcdefgh, AND abcdefghxy
How can this happen? I have now changed it to abcdejkl and now have proper access restored.
Unix, and Linux, only look at the first eight characters of your password. So if your password is 12345678 or 12345678910112, for Linux it's the same.
(These examples are for illustration purposes only, and bear no resemblance to the actual passwords)
Regards Brian
HTH, -- Frank Hart - mailto:frhart@home.nl SuSE Linux 6.3 - Kernel 2.2.14 on a i686 450 Mhz with 128 Mb RAM