NeoMayhem Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 On OS X Jaguar, I have 2 accounts, and Admin account, and the root account. The password for admin is: xxxxxxxxxxxx and the Password for root is: xxxxxxxxxxxxyy If I use either of those, I can log into root, or either of those to log into admin, why is it excepting almost right passwords? Is this some huge bug, or normal? If I use the wrong password, I cant access my keychain, probably because it cant decrypt it right. I have 10.2.6 with all the updates installed :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebaz Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 i think Macosx checks the first 8 characters only for a user log-in. I read sumthin about this at the apple website..try searching knowledge base @ apple.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aristotle-dude Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 It's a limitation of crypt (the encryption algorithm), so it affects all unix system setup to use crypt. Of course it is still better than NT encryption as long as you use 8 character passwords. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoMayhem Posted September 1, 2003 Author Share Posted September 1, 2003 Ok, my password is just longer then 8 characters, so I am sure that is why :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the evn show Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 As has already mentioned this is a limitation that's as old as *nix and the DES crypt function. Fortuantly the current panther build appears to use long passwords without truncating them (anyone with it want to check and see if this is true and if pam is installed?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fusion Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 So what is the current character limit that it has right now? It must be less than 8 if his passwords are less than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoMayhem Posted September 1, 2003 Author Share Posted September 1, 2003 Both passwords are more then 8 characters, I just didn't show the exact number of characters above for security reasons :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliott Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 OS X has amazing encryption, but only allows up the 8 characters with Jaguar, just like everybody else said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_daemon Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 Solaris boasts this as a feature ;) Suppose your password is playingpokerwithadeckoftarotcards, you can login as playingp Sort of breaks the point but oh well :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted September 1, 2003 Veteran Share Posted September 1, 2003 I wouldn't be worried though. Even with only 8 characters and only alphanumeric characters, there are still 218340105584896 possible passwords... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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