Re: passwords and crypt?

[Mike Dresser <mdresser@windsormachine.com>]

> Interesting.  I'm running Debian 2.2r2 (dist-upgraded to testing).  I
> selected MD5 for my passwords during installation.  However, it seems
> that it has defaulted my passwords to 8 characters too:
>
> >From /etc/pam.d/passwd (login is the same)
>
> password   required   pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5
Actually, i don't think the min max seem to be affecting it.  Just changed
my password to abcdefghij, and abcdefghi won't let me in, only abcdefghij.
Then again, i changed it as root.. sec.  Yup, lets me set a over 8 letter
password as the user too.  Odd.

Mike