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? > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org >
