Solaris

Hi,

I am using solaris 10. i am facing a strange problem regarding os passwd. i have a user oracle with passwd abc123

when i open a putty session with the os using abc123 it logs on. but if i use abc123!@# it agian log on without passwd error.

I came to know about the issue that if i use correct password but add any other word in the end like abc123123123 my user logon.

it shouldn't work with wrong passwd?

Plz help me

According to the passwd man page, passwords must be 6 chars, and only the first 8 characters are significant. So if you set your password to abc123abc123, anything starting with abc123ab will work.
This is what you are experiencing, except you seem to have only 6 significant characters. I'm not sure offhand where this is set to six. But what you are seeing is not too strange.

thanks,


can we change this significat number. i.e. from 8 to 10 etc.

Hi Malikshaid85

Assuming you're not using NIS or have had PAM modifications applied, check:

/etc/default/passwd

There's an entry in there which controls password length, eg:

PASSLENGTH=6

There are some other parameters there you may wish to examine.

Hope this helps

Cheers

RandomSun

thanks,

PASSLENGTH=6

Means password lenght must be at least 6. but how to change the significant length.i.e only 1st 8 characters are significant by default in solaris.

so i want to know how to change the significant length of the password?

Switch to something newer than the crypt algorithm.

Supported algorithms are listed in /etc/security/crypt.conf

To change the default one, modify the "CRYPT_DEFAULT=xxx" line in /etc/security/policy.conf