Bugtraq: Redhat 6.0 Password Issues

[joquendo () SITEAMERICA COM (root3d)]

Gentleman;

I submitted what I thought was a minor issue on Redhat's handling
of passwords. Is it me? Is it something I missed? Any password you
assign over 8 characters gets cut...

At first I thought it was my system but its not since I tested it at
home,
but then at work its the same thing:

------snip------
passwd

I typed it p4$sW3rd$ as my password
but I was able to log in using p4$sW3rD

ctrl-alt-del
bash
$
passwd
changed it to 1234567899999
and I was able to log in using:
12345678
-----endsnip-----

Does anyone else know of this?
Has anyone heard of this?

by the way I bcc'd this to Redhat as well. ;)

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J. Oquendo
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sil () macroshaft org

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