Re: bug or feature?
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, David Wright wrote:
> The point of shadow passwords is that the file containing the encrypted
> list is not readable without privelege. /etc/passwd which must be
> world-readable merely contains x in the password field.
>
> The documentation on a shadowed system does not suggest that passwords can
> be any longer than 8 characters.
The shadow package, on it's headers, has a switch to enable
double-length passwords (up to sixteen chars), but it is not suggested,
because its behaviour is still unstable.
done. Aldrin Leal. <aldrin@amazonline.com.br>
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