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Old 02-26-2004, 04:26 AM
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Password protected dirs: can login with passwords similar to the one set!
One of my users today discovered he can login to his password protected directory with any password starting with the first 8 characters of his set password.

Does this mean that setting a password of more than 8 characters does not increase protection?

Anyone else seen this before?
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