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# 8  
Old 05-15-2014
I initially thought this (and posted in haste) but further reading suggests that this might be the minimum length (totally re-wrote my post), so I'm left confused. There are descriptions about altering the encryption to use md5 or another method that will lift the limit too.


Robin
# 9  
Old 05-15-2014
@rbatte1......yes, of course, you are correct.

Here's a link on Solaris 10 password policy
Solaris 10 Password Policy Enforcement | arfore dot com

My money is still on something to do with this setup, but I can't see what.

The system is ignoring the later characters in the passwords given.
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# 10  
Old 05-15-2014
Agreed, and until we find that, ..............
# 11  
Old 05-15-2014
Do accounts other than the gaajc;s behave correctly?

If you test another account with, say, a eight character password, will it still login if you don't give all eight characters for the password?

Is the odd behaviour only associated with 'gaajcXX' accounts?
# 12  
Old 05-15-2014
Doesn't the line you showed us:
Code:
PASSLENGTH=6

tell your system to ignore everything after the first six characters in a password.
# 13  
Old 05-16-2014
/etc/security/crypt.conf
Code on /etc/security/crypt.conf :

Code:
#
# Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
# Use is subject to license terms.
#
#ident	"@(#)crypt.conf	1.2	08/05/14 SMI"
#
# The algorithm name __unix__ is reserved.

1	crypt_bsdmd5.so.1
2a	crypt_bsdbf.so.1
md5	crypt_sunmd5.so.1
5	crypt_sha256.so.1
6	crypt_sha512.so.1

Last edited by Don Cragun; 05-16-2014 at 02:20 AM.. Reason: Add CODE tags.
# 14  
Old 05-16-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
Doesn't the line you showed us:
Code:
PASSLENGTH=6

tell your system to ignore everything after the first six characters in a password.
Yes, it does.
Change it to 8 !
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