In article <[🔎] 1070568741.3684.14.camel@nahoo> you wrote: > I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8 > characters of the passwd. this is the default unix behaviour. What settings do you have in pam? Especially do you use md5 passwords? Dont know why and for which debian versions it is default, I have some mixed ones. Greetings Bernd -- eckes privat - http://www.eckes.org/ Project Freefire - http://www.freefire.org/