Re: passwords and crypt?
> Interesting. I'm running Debian 2.2r2 (dist-upgraded to testing). I
> selected MD5 for my passwords during installation. However, it seems
> that it has defaulted my passwords to 8 characters too:
>
> >From /etc/pam.d/passwd (login is the same)
>
> password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5
Actually, i don't think the min max seem to be affecting it. Just changed
my password to abcdefghij, and abcdefghi won't let me in, only abcdefghij.
Then again, i changed it as root.. sec. Yup, lets me set a over 8 letter
password as the user too. Odd.
Mike
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