• Re: Minix

    From tenser@21:1/101 to Bob Worm on Sat May 4 05:38:25 2024
    On 02 May 2024 at 06:13p, Bob Worm pondered and said...

    That's pretty shocking... a good proportion of people would find that by accident!
    The bug, of course, is constraining to the length of the user
    supplied password; the effect was that entering _no_ password automatically authenticated the password (empty strings always
    compare equal).

    That's pretty shocking... a good proportion of people would find that by accident!

    Yup, it wasn't great. :-D

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