Bug 15247

Summary:	eight char password secutity problem
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	steve <steve>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description steve 1999-12-03 20:00:01 UTC

Passwords greater than eight chars are not significant

How-To-Repeat: Create a user account, with a password that is eight chars or longer, log in with the proper first eight chars, then enter any keys after that and access is granted

Comment 1 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer

1999-12-06 15:41:23 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

What you are seeing is not a bug, nor a problem, given a good 
understanding of the available crypt methods in FreeBSD.  Please 
see http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/security.html#CRYPT and 
consider using md5. :-)