user passwords in SuSE 8.0

Subject: user passwords in SuSE 8.0
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@gci.net)
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 15:07:15 AKDT

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I came across a curious (stupid?) limitation in SuSE 8.0.. User
passwords are limited to 8 characters. Trying to set up or change
passwords through Yast2 will not let you go more than 8 characters, and
when using 'passwd' at the command line, it simply says 'truncating
password to 8 characters'. Anyone out there know how to, or have any
ideas how to get around this so I can specify longer passwords?

Thanks,
Justin

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