Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-07 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Hideki Yamane wrote:

> >i was talking about "i dont know why it is default to use unsecure crypt() 
> >instead of md5".
> >But I can think of something like "compatibility" (to what?) :)
>
>  to ...maybe NIS ?

I use NIS with md5, no compatibility problems at all as long as all
clients support md5 passwords.

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-07 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Hideki Yamane wrote:

> >i was talking about "i dont know why it is default to use unsecure crypt() instead 
> >of md5".
> >But I can think of something like "compatibility" (to what?) :)
>
>  to ...maybe NIS ?

I use NIS with md5, no compatibility problems at all as long as all
clients support md5 passwords.

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-07 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Sunday, 2003-12-07 at 00:58:59 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:

> >Can't be NIS. NIS will transport any password style faithfully. Of
> >course the master server must support MD5 passwords if you change your
> >password and the passwd command sends an MD5 password to the
> >yppasswordd.

>  I've heard about non-Linux NIS client (for example, solaris8 and 
>  SFU - Windows Service for Unix) cannot use MD5 password for NIS. 
>  Is it not true?

Can't tell about Windows. But Solaris up to the most recent released
version (Solaris 9) can only use DES passwords. I believe I read that
Solaris 10 will add support for MD5.

FreeBSD supports MD5 passwords. So it's not non-Linux.

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-07 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Sunday, 2003-12-07 at 00:58:59 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:

> >Can't be NIS. NIS will transport any password style faithfully. Of
> >course the master server must support MD5 passwords if you change your
> >password and the passwd command sends an MD5 password to the
> >yppasswordd.

>  I've heard about non-Linux NIS client (for example, solaris8 and 
>  SFU - Windows Service for Unix) cannot use MD5 password for NIS. 
>  Is it not true?

Can't tell about Windows. But Solaris up to the most recent released
version (Solaris 9) can only use DES passwords. I believe I read that
Solaris 10 will add support for MD5.

FreeBSD supports MD5 passwords. So it's not non-Linux.

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-06 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi,

>Can't be NIS. NIS will transport any password style faithfully. Of
>course the master server must support MD5 passwords if you change your
>password and the passwd command sends an MD5 password to the
>yppasswordd.

 I've heard about non-Linux NIS client (for example, solaris8 and 
 SFU - Windows Service for Unix) cannot use MD5 password for NIS. 
 Is it not true?

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-06 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi,

>Can't be NIS. NIS will transport any password style faithfully. Of
>course the master server must support MD5 passwords if you change your
>password and the passwd command sends an MD5 password to the
>yppasswordd.

 I've heard about non-Linux NIS client (for example, solaris8 and 
 SFU - Windows Service for Unix) cannot use MD5 password for NIS. 
 Is it not true?

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-06 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Saturday, 2003-12-06 at 17:03:02 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:

> >i was talking about "i dont know why it is default to use unsecure crypt() 
> >instead of md5".
> >But I can think of something like "compatibility" (to what?) :)

>  to ...maybe NIS ?

>  # if the reason why using crypt is NIS compatibility, people
>who uses NIS system is not so many, so I think it's better 
>that defalt value is md5 than crypt.

Can't be NIS. NIS will transport any password style faithfully. Of
course the master server must support MD5 passwords if you change your
password and the passwd command sends an MD5 password to the
yppasswordd.

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-06 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Friday, 2003-12-05 at 20:39:16 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> >> Dont know why and for which debian versions it is default, I have some 
> >> mixed
> >> ones.

> > Why? Because it uses DES and DES uses 56 bit keys. Eight 7 bit chars
> > give you exactly 56 bits...

> *lol*

> i was talking about "i dont know why it is default to use unsecure crypt() 
> instead of md5".

If you find it funny I misunderstood you ... I don't find it funny I
can't reply to you. Mail to your addess bounce. :-P

> But I can think of something like "compatibility" (to what?) :)

Ever heard about X/Open and their Unix standards? I'd bet they specify
this in exceeding detail.

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-06 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi,

>i was talking about "i dont know why it is default to use unsecure crypt() 
>instead of md5".
>But I can think of something like "compatibility" (to what?) :)

 to ...maybe NIS ?

 # if the reason why using crypt is NIS compatibility, people
   who uses NIS system is not so many, so I think it's better 
   that defalt value is md5 than crypt.
   
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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-06 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Saturday, 2003-12-06 at 17:03:02 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:

> >i was talking about "i dont know why it is default to use unsecure crypt() instead 
> >of md5".
> >But I can think of something like "compatibility" (to what?) :)

>  to ...maybe NIS ?

>  # if the reason why using crypt is NIS compatibility, people
>who uses NIS system is not so many, so I think it's better 
>that defalt value is md5 than crypt.

Can't be NIS. NIS will transport any password style faithfully. Of
course the master server must support MD5 passwords if you change your
password and the passwd command sends an MD5 password to the
yppasswordd.

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-06 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Friday, 2003-12-05 at 20:39:16 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> >> Dont know why and for which debian versions it is default, I have some mixed
> >> ones.

> > Why? Because it uses DES and DES uses 56 bit keys. Eight 7 bit chars
> > give you exactly 56 bits...

> *lol*

> i was talking about "i dont know why it is default to use unsecure crypt() instead 
> of md5".

If you find it funny I misunderstood you ... I don't find it funny I
can't reply to you. Mail to your addess bounce. :-P

> But I can think of something like "compatibility" (to what?) :)

Ever heard about X/Open and their Unix standards? I'd bet they specify
this in exceeding detail.

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-06 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi,

>i was talking about "i dont know why it is default to use unsecure crypt() instead of 
>md5".
>But I can think of something like "compatibility" (to what?) :)

 to ...maybe NIS ?

 # if the reason why using crypt is NIS compatibility, people
   who uses NIS system is not so many, so I think it's better 
   that defalt value is md5 than crypt.
   
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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>> Dont know why and for which debian versions it is default, I have some mixed
>> ones.
> 
> Why? Because it uses DES and DES uses 56 bit keys. Eight 7 bit chars
> give you exactly 56 bits...

*lol*

i was talking about "i dont know why it is default to use unsecure crypt() 
instead of md5".

But I can think of something like "compatibility" (to what?) :)

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>> Dont know why and for which debian versions it is default, I have some mixed
>> ones.
> 
> Why? Because it uses DES and DES uses 56 bit keys. Eight 7 bit chars
> give you exactly 56 bits...

*lol*

i was talking about "i dont know why it is default to use unsecure crypt() instead of 
md5".

But I can think of something like "compatibility" (to what?) :)

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-05 Thread Lupe Christoph
Quoting Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8
> > characters of the passwd.
 
> Dont know why and for which debian versions it is default, I have some mixed
> ones.

Why? Because it uses DES and DES uses 56 bit keys. Eight 7 bit chars
give you exactly 56 bits...

I've always wondered if the high bit does indeed make no difference.
Right now, I have only Solaris to try. ... Nope, the high bit is ignored
on Solaris. I'll have to try this at home tonight with Debian and
FreeBSD.

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-05 Thread Lupe Christoph
Quoting Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8
> > characters of the passwd.
 
> Dont know why and for which debian versions it is default, I have some mixed
> ones.

Why? Because it uses DES and DES uses 56 bit keys. Eight 7 bit chars
give you exactly 56 bits...

I've always wondered if the high bit does indeed make no difference.
Right now, I have only Solaris to try. ... Nope, the high bit is ignored
on Solaris. I'll have to try this at home tonight with Debian and
FreeBSD.

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-05 Thread Riku Valli

- Original Message - 
From: "Ruben Porras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: extrange passwd behaviour


El jue, 04-12-2003 a las 22:05, Kevin escribió:
> > I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8
> > characters of the passwd. The following characters don't count. See the
> > following example (I've created a new user just to make the test)
>
> If you are not using md5 passwords will have a max length of 8
> characters.  If you're using md5 your pam config for passwd etc should
> look something like this:
> passwordrequiredpam_unix.so md5
> And the passwords in the shadow file should start with $1$

The problem was that I was not using md5 passwd. I don't know why
/etc/pam.d/passwd was set to allow fall-through to the 'other' service.

The debconf configuration of passwd says that md5 should be enabled.
I've tried to run dpkg-reconfigure passwd with no effect, but that is
another problem and off-topic here.

Putting the line by hand works perfectly.

Thanks.

Hi

In Debian default
/etc/login.defs

#
# Number of significant characters in the password for crypt().
# Default is 8, don't change unless your crypt() is better.
# If using MD5 in your PAM configuration, set this higher.
#
PASS_MAX_LEN8

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-05 Thread Riku Valli

- Original Message - 
From: "Ruben Porras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: extrange passwd behaviour


El jue, 04-12-2003 a las 22:05, Kevin escribiÃ:
> > I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8
> > characters of the passwd. The following characters don't count. See the
> > following example (I've created a new user just to make the test)
>
> If you are not using md5 passwords will have a max length of 8
> characters.  If you're using md5 your pam config for passwd etc should
> look something like this:
> passwordrequiredpam_unix.so md5
> And the passwords in the shadow file should start with $1$

The problem was that I was not using md5 passwd. I don't know why
/etc/pam.d/passwd was set to allow fall-through to the 'other' service.

The debconf configuration of passwd says that md5 should be enabled.
I've tried to run dpkg-reconfigure passwd with no effect, but that is
another problem and off-topic here.

Putting the line by hand works perfectly.

Thanks.

Hi

In Debian default
/etc/login.defs

#
# Number of significant characters in the password for crypt().
# Default is 8, don't change unless your crypt() is better.
# If using MD5 in your PAM configuration, set this higher.
#
PASS_MAX_LEN8

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-04 Thread Ruben Porras
El jue, 04-12-2003 a las 22:05, Kevin escribió:
> > I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8
> > characters of the passwd. The following characters don't count. See the
> > following example (I've created a new user just to make the test)
> 
> If you are not using md5 passwords will have a max length of 8
> characters.  If you're using md5 your pam config for passwd etc should
> look something like this:
> passwordrequiredpam_unix.so md5
> And the passwords in the shadow file should start with $1$

The problem was that I was not using md5 passwd. I don't know why
/etc/pam.d/passwd was set to allow fall-through to the 'other' service.

The debconf configuration of passwd says that md5 should be enabled.
I've tried to run dpkg-reconfigure passwd with no effect, but that is
another problem and off-topic here.

Putting the line by hand works perfectly.

Thanks.



Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-04 Thread Ruben Porras
El jue, 04-12-2003 a las 22:08, Greg Folkert escribió:
> On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 15:12, Ruben Porras wrote:
> > I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8
> > characters of the passwd. The following characters don't count. See the
> > following example (I've created a new user just to make the test)
> > 
> > $$ adduser test
> > Adding user test...
> > Adding new group test (1006).
> > Adding new user test (1006) with group test.
> > Enter new UNIX password: qwertyuiop <-- this, for example 10 letters
> > Retype new UNIX password: qwertyuiop
> > passwd: password updated successfully
> > Changing the user information for test
> > Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
> > Full Name []:
> > Room Number []:
> > Work Phone []:
> > Home Phone []:
> > Other []:
> > Is the information correct? [y/n] y
> > 
> > $$ su test
> > Password: qwertyui <--- only 8 letters (qwertyuivnksshfdd, for example
> > would be also ok)
> > $$ whoami
> > test
> > 
> > 
> > I don't see nothing about this in BTS, I'm puzzled.
> Why would it be ib BTS?
> 
> That is standard SOP. If you are root... no password needed on that
> unless you have more than traditional *NIX security.
> 
> Remember root OWNS the system. root RULES the roost.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that the su command was not executed as root.
As other people say it's a problem related with md5 passwd.

Thantks.



Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-04 Thread Ruben Porras
El jue, 04-12-2003 a las 22:05, Kevin escribiÃ:
> > I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8
> > characters of the passwd. The following characters don't count. See the
> > following example (I've created a new user just to make the test)
> 
> If you are not using md5 passwords will have a max length of 8
> characters.  If you're using md5 your pam config for passwd etc should
> look something like this:
> passwordrequiredpam_unix.so md5
> And the passwords in the shadow file should start with $1$

The problem was that I was not using md5 passwd. I don't know why
/etc/pam.d/passwd was set to allow fall-through to the 'other' service.

The debconf configuration of passwd says that md5 should be enabled.
I've tried to run dpkg-reconfigure passwd with no effect, but that is
another problem and off-topic here.

Putting the line by hand works perfectly.

Thanks.


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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-04 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8
> characters of the passwd.

this is the default unix behaviour. What settings do you have in pam?
Especially do you use md5 passwords?

Dont know why and for which debian versions it is default, I have some mixed 
ones.

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-04 Thread Wade Richards
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:12:22PM +0100, Ruben Porras wrote:
> I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8
> characters of the passwd. The following characters don't count. See the
> following example (I've created a new user just to make the test)

This is how the "standard" Unix passwords work, and that is the default
on Debian (I don't quite know why, but it is).  It's not a bug, it's by
design.

Install libpam0g (if you don't already have it installed) and enable md5
passwords to get more secure passwords.

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 15:12, Ruben Porras wrote:
> I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8
> characters of the passwd. The following characters don't count. See the
> following example (I've created a new user just to make the test)
> 
> $$ adduser test
> Adding user test...
> Adding new group test (1006).
> Adding new user test (1006) with group test.
> Enter new UNIX password: qwertyuiop <-- this, for example 10 letters
> Retype new UNIX password: qwertyuiop
> passwd: password updated successfully
> Changing the user information for test
> Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
> Full Name []:
> Room Number []:
> Work Phone []:
> Home Phone []:
> Other []:
> Is the information correct? [y/n] y
> 
> $$ su test
> Password: qwertyui <--- only 8 letters (qwertyuivnksshfdd, for example
> would be also ok)
> $$ whoami
> test
> 
> 
> I don't see nothing about this in BTS, I'm puzzled.
Why would it be ib BTS?

That is standard SOP. If you are root... no password needed on that
unless you have more than traditional *NIX security.

Remember root OWNS the system. root RULES the roost.

Now if you try it as an unprivileged user and it succeeds... then we
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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-04 Thread Kevin
> I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8
> characters of the passwd. The following characters don't count. See the
> following example (I've created a new user just to make the test)

If you are not using md5 passwords will have a max length of 8
characters.  If you're using md5 your pam config for passwd etc should
look something like this:
passwordrequiredpam_unix.so md5
And the passwords in the shadow file should start with $1$



Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-04 Thread Ruben Porras
El jue, 04-12-2003 a las 22:08, Greg Folkert escribiÃ:
> On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 15:12, Ruben Porras wrote:
> > I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8
> > characters of the passwd. The following characters don't count. See the
> > following example (I've created a new user just to make the test)
> > 
> > $$ adduser test
> > Adding user test...
> > Adding new group test (1006).
> > Adding new user test (1006) with group test.
> > Enter new UNIX password: qwertyuiop <-- this, for example 10 letters
> > Retype new UNIX password: qwertyuiop
> > passwd: password updated successfully
> > Changing the user information for test
> > Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
> > Full Name []:
> > Room Number []:
> > Work Phone []:
> > Home Phone []:
> > Other []:
> > Is the information correct? [y/n] y
> > 
> > $$ su test
> > Password: qwertyui <--- only 8 letters (qwertyuivnksshfdd, for example
> > would be also ok)
> > $$ whoami
> > test
> > 
> > 
> > I don't see nothing about this in BTS, I'm puzzled.
> Why would it be ib BTS?
> 
> That is standard SOP. If you are root... no password needed on that
> unless you have more than traditional *NIX security.
> 
> Remember root OWNS the system. root RULES the roost.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that the su command was not executed as root.
As other people say it's a problem related with md5 passwd.

Thantks.


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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-04 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8
> characters of the passwd.

this is the default unix behaviour. What settings do you have in pam?
Especially do you use md5 passwords?

Dont know why and for which debian versions it is default, I have some mixed ones.

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extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-04 Thread Ruben Porras
I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8
characters of the passwd. The following characters don't count. See the
following example (I've created a new user just to make the test)

$$ adduser test
Adding user test...
Adding new group test (1006).
Adding new user test (1006) with group test.
Enter new UNIX password: qwertyuiop <-- this, for example 10 letters
Retype new UNIX password: qwertyuiop
passwd: password updated successfully
Changing the user information for test
Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
Full Name []:
Room Number []:
Work Phone []:
Home Phone []:
Other []:
Is the information correct? [y/n] y

$$ su test
Password: qwertyui <--- only 8 letters (qwertyuivnksshfdd, for example
would be also ok)
$$ whoami
test


I don't see nothing about this in BTS, I'm puzzled.



Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-04 Thread Wade Richards
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:12:22PM +0100, Ruben Porras wrote:
> I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8
> characters of the passwd. The following characters don't count. See the
> following example (I've created a new user just to make the test)

This is how the "standard" Unix passwords work, and that is the default
on Debian (I don't quite know why, but it is).  It's not a bug, it's by
design.

Install libpam0g (if you don't already have it installed) and enable md5
passwords to get more secure passwords.

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 15:12, Ruben Porras wrote:
> I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8
> characters of the passwd. The following characters don't count. See the
> following example (I've created a new user just to make the test)
> 
> $$ adduser test
> Adding user test...
> Adding new group test (1006).
> Adding new user test (1006) with group test.
> Enter new UNIX password: qwertyuiop <-- this, for example 10 letters
> Retype new UNIX password: qwertyuiop
> passwd: password updated successfully
> Changing the user information for test
> Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
> Full Name []:
> Room Number []:
> Work Phone []:
> Home Phone []:
> Other []:
> Is the information correct? [y/n] y
> 
> $$ su test
> Password: qwertyui <--- only 8 letters (qwertyuivnksshfdd, for example
> would be also ok)
> $$ whoami
> test
> 
> 
> I don't see nothing about this in BTS, I'm puzzled.
Why would it be ib BTS?

That is standard SOP. If you are root... no password needed on that
unless you have more than traditional *NIX security.

Remember root OWNS the system. root RULES the roost.

Now if you try it as an unprivileged user and it succeeds... then we
gots LOTSA problems to deal with.

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Re: extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-04 Thread Kevin
> I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8
> characters of the passwd. The following characters don't count. See the
> following example (I've created a new user just to make the test)

If you are not using md5 passwords will have a max length of 8
characters.  If you're using md5 your pam config for passwd etc should
look something like this:
passwordrequiredpam_unix.so md5
And the passwords in the shadow file should start with $1$


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extrange passwd behaviour

2003-12-04 Thread Ruben Porras
I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8
characters of the passwd. The following characters don't count. See the
following example (I've created a new user just to make the test)

$$ adduser test
Adding user test...
Adding new group test (1006).
Adding new user test (1006) with group test.
Enter new UNIX password: qwertyuiop <-- this, for example 10 letters
Retype new UNIX password: qwertyuiop
passwd: password updated successfully
Changing the user information for test
Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
Full Name []:
Room Number []:
Work Phone []:
Home Phone []:
Other []:
Is the information correct? [y/n] y

$$ su test
Password: qwertyui <--- only 8 letters (qwertyuivnksshfdd, for example
would be also ok)
$$ whoami
test


I don't see nothing about this in BTS, I'm puzzled.


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