On Sunday 09 November 2008 03:07 pm, Paul Saenz wrote: > In the ubuntu start up password, which is the same as the sudo > password, is there a maximum number of characters that can be used?
A bit of googling found me this: https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/user-management.html Specifically this (quote): <snip> The max=8 variable does not represent the maximum length of a password. It only means that complexity requirements will not be checked on passwords over 8 characters. You may want to look at the libpam-cracklib package for additional password entropy assistance. </snip> Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
