[plug] Redhat passwords - max 8 chars!?

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Carl Gherardi wrote:

> Something i noticed a while ago.
> 
> All my passwords are at least 9 chars long, and i made a typo on the 10th
> char one day, and redhat(6.1) let me in.
> 
> So after a bit of testing i found that at least the redhat distro ingnores
> everything but the first 8 chars of a password.
> 
> Is this the same across all distros? I tested this on freeBSD and it
> rejects me..
> 
> and why would this be?

IIRC that behaviour hasd been inherited from older crypt libraries.  Newer
ones should be able to have longer passwords.  I believe that if you turn 
on MD5 passwords to use long passwords.


Yours Tony.

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