30 Jan
2000
30 Jan
'00
15:50
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 03:30:55PM -0000, Brian Galbraith wrote:
abcdefgh . I changed my root pass word to abcdefghxy.
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.
The first eight characters are the same. Passwd only uses up to eight characters. Unfortunately the man page only suggests to use passwords with six to eight characters, but does not tell you that there is a limit. Karl Heinz -- Karl Heinz Kremer khk@khk.net http://www.khk.net ICQ: 41190739