SUMMARY:ROOT PASSWORDS!!

From: Marcelo Maraboli (maraboli@dcsc.utfsm.cl)
Date: Tue May 06 1997 - 17:26:26 CDT

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hello folks...

wow !!! did I get 80 answers in 2 hours or what??

Thanks to all the people who responded that UNIX, many flavors,
only read the first 8 characters in
the password, root or others, the rest
of the chars are ignored..

Thanks..

original question...

> recently i made a mistake enterinig the ROOT password in one of our
> Sparc 20 machines...and it let me in!!!
> the root password is something like this..
> "sacaqw milan88"
> and when I put "sacaqw mo"
> it enters OK!!!..

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Marcelo Maraboli Rosselott
Jefe de Area de Redes (Network Administrator)
Direccion Central de Servicios Computacionales (DCSC)
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile.
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