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Re: Passwords longer than 8 chars



On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 01:48:04AM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 07:05:36PM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> 
> > 	I want to setup a Debian server and abilitate passwords wih more than 8
> > 	chars. Where I have to setup this?
> 
> Potato asks you during the installation, wether you want to enable
> passwords, longer than 8 chars.
> if you haven't enabled it during the installation, you can do it with
> 'dpkg-reconfigure base-config'...

The sane person will listen to the advice above.  The masochist will
directly edit the appropriate files in /etc/pam.d/ ... :)

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