Re: passwd

[Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>]

On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Vincent Deffontaines wrote:

> now I tried something else
> I set my password to a 9 characters one
> lets say "poipoipoi" which is 9 charaters
> you can type "poipoipoi" followed by anything... you just get in as
> well...

I believe that, by default, the library function crypt() only uses the
first eight characters.  If you switch to MD5 passwords, you can
extend this length but at the lost of compatibility with other UNIXes.

-- 
Jean Pierre