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

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Mar 19, 11:20am, dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost (David Holland) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: bin/46226: underscore character ignored at the end of passwor

| The following reply was made to PR bin/46226; it has been noted by GNATS.
| 
| From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
| To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
| Cc: 
| Subject: Re: bin/46226: underscore character ignored at the end of password
| Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:19:40 +0000
| 
|  On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:40:05AM +0000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
|   >  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.
|  
|  If so, is there any reason we shouldn't change that? Neither the old
|  cipher nor 8-character passwords are a very good choice these days.

We should make a note about NIS compatibility and change the default to
something more reasonable.

christos