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