I think solaris only hashes the first 8 characters of the password. I
would have thought that would have been fixed. Also solaris only
officially supports 8 character usernames!!


# useradd hello12345
UX: useradd: hello12345 name too long.


Insane.





On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:20 PM, noel <firemoth96a at yahoo.com> wrote:
> this morning i started opensolaris, but i accidentally typed the wrong 
> password. however i was able to login, not believing it, i logged out and 
> typed another password, and i still could log in!
> Seems that as long as the length of the password is the same as the true 
> password, the system will let you in...
> I'm typing this post from a login with a bogus password.
>
> How can this be solved?
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