On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:08:23PM +0200, Gernot Bauer wrote: > Good morning, > > I was wondering, why Linux only checks 8 characters of the > login-password. I use a much longer password and would like my system to > check everything of it. Is there a flag I can set that the whole > password is verified?
Gery, from the /usr/doc/passwd/README.debian.gz: ---MD5 Encryption If you set MD5_CRYPT_ENAB=yes in /etc/login.defs, passwords will be encrypted with an MD5-based algorithm. It also supports of passwords of unlimited length and longer salt strings. Of course, I think this requires you have shadowpasswords installed. -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
