Password Issue

[Joseph Loo]

Please tell me why a password with more than 8 characters, that after the first 8 chars, when you key in any other chars, you will still be able to access.

For example, password -> abcd1234ac, the character "ac" may be enter as "bd" and still works.

[Thierry Poels_1]

Hi,

HP-UX only takes the first 8 characters into account for password checking. Anything after the first 8 characters is ignored.

regards,
Thierry.

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

man passwd(1)
Password Construction Requirements:
A password must have at least six characters. Only the first eight characters are significant in an untrusted system.

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

HPUX,SOLARIS,etc. only takes the first 8 characters.

[federico_3]

Only the firtst 8 characters are significant in an untrusted system.

Federico

[Andrew Maslin]

If you want more than 8 characters to be significant in your passwords, switch to a trusted system. This allows some other options as well, such as account expiration dates.

[Rob Smith]

Every flavor of UNIX I have ever seen only uses the first 8 characters without some kind of add on like converting to a trusted system or npasswd. Hope this helps.

Rob