FW: [gpl] Admin password

[Sam Pointer <sam.pointer () hpdsoftware com>]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Leeman [mailto:peter.leeman () btopenworld com]
Sent: 02 January 2003 03:48
To: Gpl
Subject: [gpl] Admin password


Hi (Happy new year)

I'm running Smoothwall gpl 1.0 and have found the following:

When logging on to shut smoothwall down (using admin account) if I enter the
correct password plus a few characters I can still get logged on ie,

If password = password then
'blahblah' doesn't work
'password' does
'password123' does

Strange but true, does anyone else get this, if not.. oh! if so is there a
way to stop this.

TIA
Pete.
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