On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 10:20:16PM +1000, Kieran wrote:
> This leads to another question I have. What's the limit of a password in
> linux? I know under NIS it seems to be 8 characters (unless that's
> configurable).. Anyone?
It has been sometime since I last looked at the crypt(3) but from memory it
only cares about the first 8 characters. If you want longer passwords
one way to do so would be to use MD5 hashing.
This is fairly simple if you are using Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
but unfortunately isn't compatible when using NIS services.
Anand
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