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

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

The following reply was made to PR bin/46226; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/46226: underscore character ignored at the end of password
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:35:57 +0100

 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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