> > now I do have one question about this too, in /etc/login.defs there > is a line for defining the maximum number of significant characters > in a password, it is set to 8 which you would need to change, my > question is 1) is this option relevant on potato with PAM? and 2) > what is the maximum number of characters a md5 password may contain? >
1) I dunno, might be
2) Probably maxbuf. you can use md5 to verify big files, so a password is
relatively small.
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