Bug 18340

Summary: Password during Login
Product: Base System Reporter: sherwin <sherwin>
Component: i386Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.0-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description sherwin 2000-05-02 07:20:06 UTC 
I found out that during login phase, FreeBSD does not check the password if its longer than the stored password of the user against the inputed one.

Fix: 

Re-configure the algorithm on how FreeBSD check the Password against its database.
How-To-Repeat: Try to login, root or even ordinary user:

Now in our case the password of root is "qwerty12"

Try entering this passwords:

-password-      -result-
qwerty           invalid
qwery12          invalid
qwerty12         valid
qwerty1234       valid, but its supposed to be invalid
Comment 1 Chris D.Faulhaber freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-05-02 14:20:04 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Duplicate of i386/18339