On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:22:03 -0300 Diego Crivelli <dcrivelli@com.uncor.edu> wrote: <snip> > I created a user on my woody box with adduser and when prompted for > the password I wrote a word with more than 8 characters. But I can > login by supply only the first 8 characters. I tried changing the > 'maxlength' value on login.defs, didn't work. So, how can I use > passwords of more than 8 characters?. Thanks. <snip> Howdy Diego, As root, run "dpkg-reconfigure passwd". It will bring up a dialog box asking if you want to enable md5 passwords - answer Yes, and then it will allow you to use passwords longer than 8 characters. HTH, Jacob ----- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware
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