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- Subject: Lost passwords
- Date: 4/6/90
-
- Question:
-
- I have a client at George Washington University who has just
- upgraded from 2.15a to 2.15c. He also changed machines from an AST
- 386/20 with a WD7000 FASST II controller with one 80MB and one 650MB
- drive attached to it to a Triumph 386/33 with a DPT ESDI
- controller with a 150MB drive and the WD7000 with the 650MB drive
- on it. He installed ok, and restored from a Cypher PC 125 using
- Sytos v3.x backup software.
-
- The upgrade and restore went fine. He logged in, and all users,
- including Supervisor, now had expired passwords. They were
- allowed to change passwords or use a Grace login to get in, but
- two users who changed passwords with more chars than the required
- minimum were told the passwords were too short. They were able to
- get in with a grace login and could use Setpass to make the
- change. This system has unique passwords enabled, and when other
- users got the message that the new password they'd selected was
- already in use and would they like to change it again, said no to
- that, the system allowed them in and took away their password
- altogether.
-
- This is very weird, and I'd like to know is anyone has
- experienced a similar problem with the 2.15c upgrade.
-
- Answer:
-
- Your password problem is due to a bug in previous versions on
- 2.15. This is due to the password length not being properly
- placed in the bindery. If the file server has been set up to
- check for a minimum password length and is upgraded to 2.15C, all
- passwords should be changed. Once the change has been made the
- problem will discontinue.
-
- That's a direct quote from the TIDB TECHNOTES card file.
-