Bugzilla – Bug 372536
Truncating root password to 8 chars
Last modified: 2008-03-26 14:12:11 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.
*** Bug 373536 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This happens with local authentication (/etc/passwd) and blowfish encryption, too.
Please provide yast2 logs.
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!
It is independent of encryption type, I had same problem with DES.
Created attachment 204034 [details] This logfile is for local authentication using /etc/passwd and DES
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.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 371147 ***