Re: Linux checks only 8 chars of the password...
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 05:17:43PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> * Ben Collins said:
>
> > > > login-password. I use a much longer password and would like my system to
> > > > check everything of it. Is there a flag I can set that the whole
> > > > password is verified?
> > > Just take a look at the /etc/login.defs and read the description of the
> > > MD5_CRYPT_ENAB. Setting this option to "on" makess the passwd suite use the
> > > MD5 digest encryption algorithm which doesn't have the limitation of DES.
> >
> > Please note that in potato, the MD5 is enabled via the /etc/pam.d files
> I was referring to the current state of stable/unstable. It uses shadowutils
> package and that in turn uses /etc/login.defs
>
> > (atleast after today it will be, once the new shadow is installed).
> Hmm... is that mean that we're gonna switch to the same passwd suite as RH,
> for example? Too bad... the current passwd has many useful switches (-l -u
> being two of them...)
No, RedHat does not use all of the shadow tools (it's a mix of shellutils,
util-linux and shadow). We are staying with shadow, but PAM enabled.
Ben
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