weird bug?

[Chris Papadopoulos]

Thanx for the advice!

> mallon kati katalabes la8os. molis to dokimasa me SuSE 8, kai leitourgei
mia xara.
> an xrhsimopoieis DES encryption, tote to password einai mexri 8
xarakthres. an
> to password pou exeis epileksei einai megalutero, tote apla xrhsimipoiei
tous 8
> prwtous. opote, o kwdikos 123456789 einai isodunamos me 123456788
> xrhsimopoiwntas DES.
>
> 8ewrw periergo pantws pou h SuSE 8ewrei akoma oti prepei na xrhsimopoiei
DES
> encruption stous kwdikous, afou tous 8ewrei "linux default". sta
palaiotera SuSE
> eprepe na egkatasthseis to harden_suse paketo gia na xrhsimopoiei to
susthma
> MD5,  enw twra prepei na allazeis monos sou thn proepilogh.
> auto pou mou aresei pantws, einai oti to password file mporei na periexei
kai
> DES kai MD5 kwdikous tautoxrona, opote 8ema compatibility den ti8etai...

To password tou root itan ontos 8 xaraktires. Ston user pou itan ligoteroi
den ipirxe to idio problima.
Afou egkatestisa to harden_suse etsi kai allios, ekana enable to MD5 (yast2
modules->security)
kai meta allaksa to password (to palio eksakolouthouse na einai DES
fainetai).
Tora douleyei kala.
H oli ipothesi omos sinexizei na mou thimizei perissotero bug ;)