Subj : Re: Minix
To   : Bob Worm
From : tenser
Date : Sat May 04 2024 05:38 am

On 02 May 2024 at 06:13p, Bob Worm pondered and said...
 
 BW> That's pretty shocking... a good proportion of people would find that by
 BW> accident!
 BW>  > The bug, of course, is constraining to the length of the user
 BW>  > supplied password; the effect was that entering _no_ password
 BW>  > automatically authenticated the password (empty strings always
 BW>  > compare equal).
 BW> 
 BW> That's pretty shocking... a good proportion of people would find that by
 BW> accident!

Yup, it wasn't great.  :-D

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