Password problems

hak_uc · 09-20-2006, 10:35 AM

Hello

I seem to be having a unique problem with respect to passwords.
I have a SUN x20z server running Redhat ES 4.0.

The problem is this -
When i type in my correct password and then continue with a few more extra characters or as many as i want, the password is still accepted as correct.

Should it not abort saying it is a wrong password?

eg: if the password is abc123 - I could type 'abc123jhdjdsh' and it is still accepted and lets me login.

Why is this happening? Any help is appreciated.

Thank you
Kiran

Nathanael · 09-20-2006, 10:51 AM

do you have shadow passwords enabled?

stress_junkie · 09-20-2006, 11:14 AM

I have seen this on Sun OS/Solaris. In that case the login process only pays attention to the first eight characters entered and ignores the rest. I have no idea about Red Hat.

Red Hat should be using PAM. In that case you can look at your PAM configuration files to see what it is doing.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/

http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/l...-html/pam.html

hak_uc · 09-20-2006, 11:24 AM

Hi Nathan,

Not sure how to check if shadow passwords is enabled. I looked in /etc/shadow - anything there i should be looking for?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nathanael

do you have shadow passwords enabled?

Nathanael · 09-20-2006, 11:52 AM

first of all it's Nathanael!

secondly: googleing and searching this forum makes me believe you need to run authconfig
(that should be a hint to use google and to search this forum ... a friendly hint) :-)