Albert E. Whale wrote:
> I have encountered a limit of 8 characters when defining New Users.
> Since this is only one of the many Systems (most of which are Mandrake)
> I manage, I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem.
> 
> On RedHat I had authentication issues for the pop server which were
> corrected with changes to the /etc/pam.d/pop file.  Has anyone resolved
> this problem yet?
> 
> 
> --
> Albert E. Whale - CISSP

Albert,

I don't mean scare you, but the password thing is like that by design 
and not by accident. It's a Unix thing and it's always been thata way.

There are plenty of ways to make passwords different and typable without 
going to strings longer then 8 characters which is probably why it's 
never been changed.

Mark



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