[gobolinux-users] Maximum password length

Dan theyranos at gmail.com
Sat Jun 17 16:59:58 GMT 2006


That line was already commented out. Fortunately, the comments in  
that file are very helpful. This line:

MD5_CRYPT_ENAB yes

Now my limit has changed to 127, which I can live with :)

Thanks


> There is a PASS_MAX_LEN definition inside
> /Programs/Shadow/Settings/login.defs
>
> Try changing the value set there (or even commenting out the  
> definition).
>
> On 6/17/06, Dan <theyranos at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My passwords are always longer than eight characters. For some
>> reason, though, my Gobo machine just ignores characters after the
>> eighth when I run passwd, which means that anyone can log in using
>> the first eight characters of my 13 character password.
>>
>> I remember having to fix that before, but I don't remember how I did
>> it. Anybody know off the top of their head?
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