Bug 372536

Summary:	Truncating root password to 8 chars
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Martin Kudlvasr <mkudlvasr>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Jiří Suchomel <jsuchome>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	funtasyspace, postadal, sascha.wessels
Version:	Alpha 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Development	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	requested y2log This logfile is for local authentication using /etc/passwd and DES

Description Martin Kudlvasr 2008-03-19 21:01:22 UTC

When installing alpha3 (Qt install), I have chosen LDAP authentication with kerberos. When entering root password, there is confirmation popup like:

'''your selected password algorithm does not support more than 8 characters. do you want to truncate password to 8 characters?'''

After finishing installation, setting password longer than 8 chars was no problem.
There should not be such a limitation during install.

Comment 1 Magnus Boman 2008-03-25 09:32:34 UTC

*** Bug 373536 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Jörg Hermsdorf 2008-03-25 09:55:37 UTC

This happens with local authentication (/etc/passwd) and blowfish encryption, too.

Comment 3 Martin Mrazik 2008-03-26 07:54:09 UTC

Please provide yast2 logs.

Comment 4 Sascha Wessels 2008-03-26 10:31:39 UTC

Created attachment 203986 [details]
requested y2log

y2log for installation of openSUSE 11 Alpha 3 until popup message: 

The password is too long for the current encryption method.
Truncate it to 8 characters?

This logfile is for local authentication using /etc/passwd and blowfish hashing. Not LDAP!

Comment 5 Petr Ostadal 2008-03-26 10:59:59 UTC

It is independent of encryption type, I had same problem with DES.

Comment 6 Petr Ostadal 2008-03-26 13:35:40 UTC

Created attachment 204034 [details]
This logfile is for local authentication using /etc/passwd and DES

Comment 7 Stefan Hundhammer 2008-03-26 14:06:48 UTC

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_activity.cgi?id=372536

funtasyspace@yahoo.com : Please explain why this would be CRITICAL.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity

   "Critical Crash, loss of data, corruption of data, severe memory leak"

There is no data loss. There is no data corruption. There is no memory leak.
Downgrading to a reasonable severity.

Comment 8 Jiří Suchomel 2008-03-26 14:12:11 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 371147 ***