On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 07:08, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Woody,
>
> you can "use" as many as you want to, however, the system only
> recognizes and uses the first 8 characters of the string, so you're
> typing extra characters that aren't even being used.
>
> Mark
Not true.
Since I operate SCO systems which *do* have an eight character password
limit, you would have through I would have noticed as much in Linux as
the first time I setup my password on SCO I noticed it right off. But
to be safe, I did some testing and best I can tell going back through
two years of RH and MDK Linux, my greater than eight character passwords
have been enforced to their fullest extent.
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Woody
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