At Donnerstag, 12. September 2002 04:14 Rob Bourne wrote:
I installed 8.0 about a month ago. The password i wanted to use had 9 characters and the install defaults to 8. I entered the first eight characters and later ran yast to enable 15 character passwords. I also checked all 3 boxes above the password length dialog boxes (md5 or something like that). I changed my password to the 9 character version. Now I can login with either the 8 or the 9 character password.
Sounds like you are still having the crypt()-Version of your password, and only the first 8 characters are hashed. Check the corresponding line in /etc/shadow If the shadow-file says something like username:$1$________$_______________:_etc.. then the password is stored as the MD5 hash (the long format) But if it's like username:___________:_etc.. then the password is stored as the crypt() Hash, where only the first 8 chars of the password are significant. Setting a new password should allways create the MD5-format ( where the hash starts with '$1$' ) Greetings -- Michael Zimmermann (Vegaa Safety and Security for Internet Services) Key fingerprint = 1E47 7B99 A9D3 698D 7E35 9BB5 EF6B EEDB 696D 5811