Subject: Re: user passwords in SuSE 8.0
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 17:19:05 AKDT
On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 15:07, Justin Dieters wrote:
>
> 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
I don't know if this is related, .. but during an install of Debian it
asks to enable 'shadow' passwords.. this enables passwords of > 8
characters.
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