Brian Gupta wrote:
> Also what is the reason password is limited to eight chars?

In Solaris?   Because you haven't activated the non-default
option to use a password hashing algorithm that can store more
than 8 chars worth of data, such as md5.

See the crypt.conf(4) man page for details.

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        -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
         Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering


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