Re: [password][curruption] I have looked in FAQ

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 05/21/98


On Thu, 21 May 1998, Mike Carpenter wrote:

>I cannot find the faq you were referring to George on my problem.  Players

I didn't say it was _in_ a FAQ, I said it _was_ a FAQ.

>are able to log in as other players, using bogus passwords.  It doesn't
>work for all players, but some.  There isn't anything consistant about it.

Anyone with over a 5 character password is vulnerable I think.

>I have bpl12.  I tried to increase the max_pwd_length in structs.h from 10
>to 20 or even higher, however when i go to log on(after I pwiped) I get a
>segmentation fault when the person gets to the race type.  So no one can

You forgot to erase the player file.

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