Am 2008-05-17 11:24:35, schrieb Mike Bird:
> On Sat May 17 2008 10:59:41 Digby Tarvin wrote:
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html#s-auth-
> >pam say
> > "Now edit /etc/pam.d/passwd and change the first line. You should add
> > the option "md5" to use MD5 passwords, change the minimum length of
> > password from 4 to 6 (or more) and set a maximum length, if you desire."
>
> If I knew how I'd asked you to file a bug report against that web page,
> as max= does not limit password length in either Etch or Lenny.
Sarge and Woody too.
AFAIK the option "max=" was only for standard UNIX-Passwords.
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