I asked: > With the advent of Solaris 9 and the end of the 8 character limitation on > passwords, I have started to gradually increase the length of the passwords. > I am doing this slowly to make sure nothing breaks. > > Well, I think something has. > > On the few solaris 9 servers that have 9 character root passwords, it is > impossible to go to single user mode. When prompted for the root password > to enter single user mode, the 9 character password is not recognized. > The first 8 characters of that 9 digit password were also not recognized. > It was necessary to bring the box back up to multi-user mode, change the > root password to an 8 character password and then go into single-user > mode. The server accepted the new 8 character password just fine. > > btw, on these servers I have changed the default algorithm from DES > (__unix__) to blowfish. However changing the password, still in blowfish, > to 8 characters resolved the problem so I do not believe its the algorithm. > > So has anyone else seen this behavior where on a Solaris 9 server a root > password of more than 8 characters is not honored when entering > single-user or maintenance mode? TIA. The solution: Sun Alert number 57463. We actually solved the problem last night, since that Alert specifies a patch needed and that was one of the patches we installed. A one-sentence summary of SA 57463: install 112874-06 or higher and 113482-02 or higher. Thanks to: Hendrik Visage <hvisage@is.co.za> Darren Dunham <ddunham@taos.com> Sun Microsystems Support +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Christopher L. Barnard O When I was a boy I was told that | | cbarnard@tsg.cbot.com / \ anybody could become president. | | (312) 347-4901 O---O Now I'm beginning to believe it. | | http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~cbarnard --Clarence Darrow | +----------PGP public key available via finger or PGP keyserver---------+ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Apr 8 13:17:25 2004
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