AIX 7.1 su root password bug?

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Published on 2013-10-22T14:51:50Z Indexed on 2013/10/22 15:57 UTC
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In our AIX 7.1 machine there is a weird bug we've ran into..

If you are logged into the AIX box via SSH as a regular user and you try to su - you get prompted for the password, lets say our password is "P@$$w0rd23", you can type "P@$$w0rd2ANYTHING" and it will still grant you root.

As long as you have "P@$$w0rd2" it will grant you root regardless of what else you specify in the authentication and even though the actual password is "P@$$w0rd23".

This seems to be a bug? Anyone see anything like this before?

Thanks.

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