On 18 Mar 2002 turbolinux@freemail.it wrote:

> he got always access to ftpd and sshd. It's like if 12.34.5678 and
> 12.34.5687 were the same passwords! How is it possible? Could anyone try

man des
man crypt

Basically, only the first eight characters are used. The new crypt(3)
and passwd(1) allow use of different hash/encryption methods.

man passwd.conf

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