biocca@bevb.bev.lbl.gov (Alan Biocca) (05/05/89)
In article <8903311251.AA04283@cobra.mitre.org> gfr@cobra.mitre.org (Glenn Roberts) writes: >X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 232, message 10 of 21 >If you set your root password to anything with more than 8 characters on a >Sun386i you won't be able to log in from the console as root! (still can >'su' though). I haven't taken the time to find out why this happens or >whether this same problem could exist on other Sun systems. I have experienced this with user accounts as well, and this on Sun-3/68020 based systems running 3.x... The system is inconsistent when dealing with long account names in some cases trimming to 8 characters and others using the whole length of account name (depending on the program(s) involved). Our solution was to stay below 8 characters. comments by Alan K Biocca