On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:50:56AM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > After worring quite a lot about using complex (and long) enough passwords today I have realized that it doesn't matter what I type after the eigth char of any user's password it will be accepted. Why is this? I've got shadow on and MD5 off. [please try wrapping your lines] Turn md5 on. This will solve your problem. The older crypt system only compares the first 8 chars unfortunately. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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