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Re: Linux checks only 8 chars of the password...



* Ben Collins said:

> > > (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.
Yes. My statement doesn's stand anymore :)) - since I asked it, I upgraded
and was really glad that the old tools are there just with the PAM support
added. 

marek

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