Re: bin/46226: underscore character ignored at the end of password

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 09:20:01AM +0000, wlsidorenko%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
> It seems, that underscore character is ignored at the end of one's password. 
> For example if I set a password for user xxx to
> 
> 1suirrel_
> 
> I'm able to do `su xxx' by just typing
> 
> 1suirrel
> 
> And `1suirrel_'  works too. Though when underscore is used at the beginning 
> of password it seemingly isn't ignored.
> 
> /etc/passwd.conf is default as it came with the base system
> >cat /etc/passwd.conf
> #       $NetBSD: passwd.conf,v 1.2 2002/04/15 07:48:00 ad Exp $
> #
> # passwd.conf(5) -
> #       password configuration file
> #
> 
> #default:
> #       localcipher = md5
> #       ypcipher = old
> 

I think that, by default, localcipher is 'old'. With this cipher, only
the 8 first characters of password are used. So in your test case,
it's the 9th caracter which is ignored, whatever it is.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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