[gobolinux-users] Re: Maximum password length

[Hisham Muhammad]

I made a recipe for Shadow 4.0.16 here, but noticed a weird behavior
when updating my settings. Looks like Shadow's 'make install' install
its own copy of login.defs, which gets written over the one I had in
the recipe's Resources/Defaults/Settings. When UpdateSettings ran, the
"new version" used in the Merge diff is that from upstream, not the
recipe's version. Compile bug? Can anyone confirm this?

-- Hisham

On 6/17/06, Dan <theyranos at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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