* William T Wilson said: > On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Gernot Bauer wrote: > > > 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? > > You're stuck with it. The format of the password file only has room for 8 > characters of meaningful data. This is a holdover from ancient times, I Hmm???? Where did you take that information from? Just use MD5 instead of DES. The DES limits password length to 8 chars.
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