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On August 26, 2001 06:12 am, you wrote:

> just logged into my mdk8.0 box as root, password being say
>
> abcdefxy123456
>
> login was allowed on entering abcdef12, tried twice
> just to convince myself
>
> is there an update for this?

This is a bug if you rely on the Mandrake installer to set passwords.  If you 
use the C/L to reset the password this bug will no longer effect you.

su to root ...

# passwd <username>

<enter new passwd>

<confirm new passwd>


Regards,

SpeedMan

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