[colug-432] su broken on ...

[Rob Funk]

On Monday, February 21, 2011 10:19:03 am Thomas W. cranston wrote:
> Getting a different number of characters is probably a symptom of
> something wrong.

I disagree completely. I've seen many systems that show some small number of 
dots rather than dots matching the character count in the password. Keep in 
mind that in a well-designed system, the actual password (including its 
length) isn't even retrievable at all.

You're chasing a red herring here.