yenda on #guix reported that when typing user passwords, only the first 8 characters need to be typed correctly to successfully log in.
DusXMT on #guix mentioned that [GNU/]Linux From Scratch instructs users to change "#ENCRYPT_METHOD_DES" to "ENCRYPT_METHOD_SHA512" in etc/login.defs: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/shadow.html I tried modifying both /etc/login.defs and etc/login.defs in our 'shadow' package recipe, and then tried updating my password entry with 'passwd' but it still only pays attention to the first 8 characters. 'strace' reveals that 'passwd' doesn't even look for any file named "login.defs". I'm not sure what's going on here, but it would be good to fix it soon. Mark
