On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Faisal spewed into the ether:
> 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
To be precise, this depends on the implementation of your system
crypt(3) function. If your crypt produces MD5 hashes, then your pssword
will not be truncated, if it produces DES hashes, then your password's
maximum length is 8 characters.
Devdas Bhagat
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