Did you figure out what caused this?

Ivaylo Toshev wrote:

> Hi there,
> I've just installed Mandrake 8.1 and discovered that the password length is
> only 8 characters, thath means that if you set your password, for example as
> "pass12345678", the system will authorize you if you type "pass1234", or
> "pass1234-BLA-BLA".
>  There is shadowing on the system, i think that there is MD5 encryption
> included when i installed, but i didnt remember if installation program has
> asked me for MD5,NIS, or LDAP.
>
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