On Friday 20 April 2001 17:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Was trying out a SuSE 7.0 installation .. due to a bad HDD with a few
> thousand bad sectors, the installation messed up. -- However, when am
> trying to assign a password for the root or create the inital password for
> root. Its truncating my password to 8 characters - is that normal ? Or,
> that's due to the messy installation ..
No I guess that's normal if you're using crypt instead of MD5. The crypt
function acn only take a 8 character password anyways... If you want to use
longer passwords, you might have to use MD5. I'm not sure that allows it,
though it should....
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