[colug-432] su broken on ...

[Thomas W. cranston]

On 02/21/2011 09:27 AM, Rob Funk wrote:
> 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.
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I have seen systems where the number of characters is the same as the 
password. No argument about whether that is good or bad. If displaying a 
different number of characters is normal for f14, you are right. What is 
normal for f14?

Tom