Re: bin/46226: underscore character ignored at the end of password

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR bin/46226; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
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Subject: Re: bin/46226: underscore character ignored at the end of password
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:08:22 -0400

 On Mar 19, 11:20am, dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost (David Holland) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: bin/46226: underscore character ignored at the end of passwor
 
 | The following reply was made to PR bin/46226; it has been noted by GNATS.
 | 
 | From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
 | To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 | Cc: 
 | Subject: Re: bin/46226: underscore character ignored at the end of password
 | Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:19:40 +0000
 | 
 |  On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:40:05AM +0000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 |   >  I think that, by default, localcipher is 'old'. With this cipher, only
 |   >  the 8 first characters of password are used. So in your test case,
 |   >  it's the 9th caracter which is ignored, whatever it is.
 |  
 |  If so, is there any reason we shouldn't change that? Neither the old
 |  cipher nor 8-character passwords are a very good choice these days.
 
 We should make a note about NIS compatibility and change the default to
 something more reasonable.
 
 christos