Hello Florian, yupe, that seems to be the reason.. thx man!
Friday, December 5, 2003, 8:57:50 PM, you wrote: FE> Hello Derek! FE> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 04:44:44PM +0800, Derek Chew En-Hock wrote: >> I got a particular weird passwd problem with one particular debian >> machine that I am using... apparently, whether you input a password >> with a special character, the system still thinks its the >> same as the password without the special character... >> >> for example, if my password is testing123$ >> >> the system would actually allow a valid login with either testing123 >> or testing123$ as the valid password! FE> Is it really the special character, or rather something along of not FE> having md5 enabled and thus being limited to eight characters. See FE> http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2003/debian-security-200312/msg00094.html FE> for details. FE> Cheers, FE> Flo -- Best regards, Derek mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
