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From: Jason Wells <sysadmin@s5-25-199.student.washington.edu>
Reply-To: jcwells@u.washington.edu
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Subject: login accepts bad passwd and logs user in
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>Number:         2560
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       login accepts bad passwd and logs user in
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 22 16:00:01 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Thu Jan 23 08:18:13 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:  Thu Jan 23 12:30:03 PST 1997
>Originator:     Jason Wells
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1.5-STABLE i386
>Organization:
highperformance.net	 
>Environment:

	

>Description:
Login accepts password that is known to be bad. If the user accidentally adds characters to the end of a correct password login does not reject the login. If your password was 'password' and you entered 'passwordxx' login willaccept the password.
	

>How-To-Repeat:

	

>Fix:
	
	

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: wollman 
State-Changed-When: Thu Jan 23 08:18:13 PST 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
Only eight characters of key are significant when using the DES-based 
crypt(). 

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: jcwells@u.washington.edu
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/2560: login accepts bad passwd and logs user in
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 21:02:50 +0100

 As Jason Wells wrote:
 
 > Login accepts password that is known to be bad. If the user
 > accidentally adds characters to the end of a correct password login
 > does not reject the login. If your password was 'password' and you
 > entered 'passwordxx' login willaccept the password.
 
 That's a known problem.  There are only 8 significant characters in a
 password.  So the password wasn't ``bad'' per se.
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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