Yes, it is part of the UNIX crypt.. It can also be changed very easy, however the problem with that is.. many daemons (lots of ftpd's) do not support more than 8 character passwords. Or, they didn't a couple of years ago, I have just accepted it, and gone on with life. This is also all covered on redhat.com in deatil in the documentation. You will also note in your login.defs # # Number of significant characters in the password for crypt(). # Default is 8, don't change unless your crypt() is better. # Ignored if MD5_CRYPT_ENAB set to "yes". # #PASS_MAX_LEN 8 On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Josh Higham wrote: > >Gentleman; > > > >I submitted what I thought was a minor issue on Redhat's handling > >of passwords. Is it me? Is it something I missed? Any password you > >assign over 8 characters gets cut... > > > This is a result of UNIX crypt (I believe). Standard unix passwords only > handle the first 8 characters of a password; RH6.0 allows you to install MD5 > passwords, which can give you additional length, if desired. > > > > >At first I thought it was my system but its not since I tested it at > >home, > >but then at work its the same thing: > > > >------snip------ > >passwd > > > >I typed it p4$sW3rd$ as my password > >but I was able to log in using p4$sW3rD > > > >ctrl-alt-del > >bash > >$ > >passwd > >changed it to 1234567899999 > >and I was able to log in using: > >12345678 > >-----endsnip----- > > > >Does anyone else know of this? > >Has anyone heard of this? > > > >by the way I bcc'd this to Redhat as well. ;) > > > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > >Yours Truly > >J. Oquendo > >silat_private > >silat_private > > > > > >"Linux -- Where you really can go tommorow" > > > >ID 0x1281EC4F > >DH/DSS > >4096/1024 > >CIPHER: CAST > >PGP Fingerprint > >46C0 6A83 E6D2 FEA6 383A B9A6 44D3 4E77 1281 EC4F > > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.0.2 > > > >iQA/AwUBN6d/aETTTncSgexPEQLuAgCfRF5dpZii9yEPnqZ+F+ > >AEbzB+KL0An3mXPk+Y8lZxkr0crgw72zPX5w71=tCpK > >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > Erik Parker eparkerat_private
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