Subject: Re: user passwords in SuSE 8.0
From: Arthur Corliss (arthur@corlissfamily.org)
Date: Sun Sep 01 2002 - 21:50:09 AKDT
> The 8 character password has been a part of U*ix forever. Most
> flavors just ignored the 8+ characters. May be best to let folks
> know that that is all there is?
I think others have already pointed out in recent threads that the 8 character
limit was a limitation of the standard crypt() function. For those of you
using MD5 passwords (most distributions now use that by default), you can have
more than that.
--Arthur Corliss
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