loose passowrd??!!

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loose passowrd??!!

hello everbody:
I've just faced this weird case, on my sol8 machine i created user called:
mmsctest, and assigned its passwrd to be same as user name "mmsctest".
however when I enter the password follwoed by any charecters like:
mmsctest1,mmsctest123,mmsctest666

Im managed to log in wth that user.
Do you have any idea what caused such case??

Thanks alot

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Solaris 8 only uses 8 characters for the password, all of the ones after the eighth are discarded unless you change the encryption algorithm being used.

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