Re: [TCLUG:13505] Password/Linux User Length

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Jonathan Kline wrote:

> 	Does anyone know how to change a passsword Length in RH?  Rigth now you
> can have a passwd of infinite charactwers, but it only checks the first
> 8...  Which can bad if a user thinks they have a 10 character poassword
> but they really only have an 8 character password?  I suppose this helps
> out crackers but not us paraniod admins!  Also can you change the length
> of user names/and groups?
> Thanks for the advanced Help:

Simple: enable md5 passwords.

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