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

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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
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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.
 
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 David A. Holland
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