Re: Bug in login

[poidog () IAV COM (System Grunt)]

On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Jason Ackley wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Justin Priestley wrote:
>
> > Not sure if this is known yet.
> >
> >
> >    I use FreeBSD and also work on BSDI. If a user has numbers on the end
> > of their passwd, this is not recognised. Add a user and telnet to your
> > machine. Make sure the passwd has numbers on the end.
>
>  Unable to replicate on BSDI 3.1, how long was the password before the
> numbers started? What is the password length setting in /etc/login.conf?

On BSDi 2.1 also doesn't matter, password limits of 8 or 128, tested on
both.  Jason, is probably right that you used a password exceeding 8
characters in length.  Meaning asdfasdf is the same as asdfasdf1 or
asdfasdfx or asdfasdfbuggaboo.  It just truncates it after the first 8
characters... guess that's why it's 8 significant characters. ;)

Now a real fun one is using a username of ONLY numerics.  Try adding a
user '1234' then see how that affects quotas on that user...

> After the default setting of 8 chars, nothing matters, BSDI does support
> 'widepasswords' of 128 chars though that you must enable in
> /etc/login.conf. See login.conf(5)

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