misc/69596: When logging in or su'ing to root, I noticed that if you type the correct password but add characters to the end of the correct password, the password still passes validation and allows you to login

[Simon L. Nielsen]

Synopsis: When logging in or su'ing to root, I noticed that if you type the correct password but add characters to the end of the correct password, the password still passes validation and allows you to login

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: simon
State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 26 21:11:18 GMT 2004
State-Changed-Why: 
Close the PR since this is a limitation in DES, as noted in ceri's
followups.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=69596