Todd, Not to correct you but have you tried to login as thisisav ... It often works. It definitely is true of passwords. We had a tech who left a nice little message as the root password on some boxes cashoutandgotohellyoubastards (He was miffed) one of the guys hit return too fast after only entering cashoutandgohelly (or there abouts) and he logged in. (Mandrake 7.2 uptodate with all applicable updates.) This got us experimenting by removing one letter at a time and trying to su to root. When we got down to cashoutandgo ...... it worked. cashoutang didn't. (passwords are now changed) It seemed that Linux (RH or Mandrake) only checked the first 12 characters of the password string. It will accept longer ones into it's data base but only the first 12 are significant. In 9.0 however this doesn't seem to occur (I'm checking now.) IE it may be a problem that is now solved but wasn't in pre 9.0 systems. (Can't check 8.2 right now... X has gone flaky again.... but 9.0beta 4 is rock rock solid same box same drive.)
James On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 19:45, Todd Lyons wrote: > Albert E. Whale wrote on Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:15:24PM -0400 : > > How do I eliminate the 8 character User ID on LM 8.2? > > There is no such limit: > > [root@fiji ~]# useradd thisisaverylongname > [root@fiji ~]# vdir /home > total 28 > drwx------ 3 gc gc 120 Aug 31 10:48 gc > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Jul 8 15:59 mp3 > dr-x------ 3 test test 141 Aug 7 15:55 test > drwx------ 3 thisisaverylongname thisisaverylongname 100 Sep 5 > 19:42 th > isisaverylongname > drwxr-xr-x 88 todd todd 8192 Sep 5 19:41 todd > drwxr-xr-x 7 todd2 users 4096 Sep 5 16:50 todd2 > [root@fiji ~]# vdir /home > total 28 > drwx------ 3 gc gc 120 Aug 31 10:48 gc > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Jul 8 15:59 mp3 > dr-x------ 3 test test 141 Aug 7 15:55 test > drwx------ 3 thisisaverylongname thisisaverylongname 100 Sep 5 > 19:42 thisisaverylongname > drwxr-xr-x 88 todd todd 8192 Sep 5 19:41 todd > drwxr-xr-x 7 todd2 users 4096 Sep 5 16:50 todd2 > > Blue skies... Todd > -- > ...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious > anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my binaries, and you > will know my name is root, when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
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