Bjoern wrote: > > for example my password on my system is: test1 > the user names are: delete and (of course) root > > Why is it possible to login as 'delete' and as 'root' > when i type instead of 'test1' as password, 'test1dfetdf' (for > example). > > Or more exactly: Why is it possible to type the right password an then > add as much letters and numbers i want to it? > > I am using a debian 1.2.6. Login made on all tyy's. 'su -' act's the > same.
Previous replies stated that only the first 8 characters are significant. However Bjoern's test password `test1' is only 5 characters long. I think his question still stands. Furthermore I always wondered why there is a limitation of 8 characters. Wouldn't it be a lot harder to crack passwords if only they were allowed to be a little longer? Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
