Am 2008-05-17 15:35:33, schrieb Digby Tarvin:
> One thing that I find rather hard to justify is that even on an Etch system
> installed from scratch just a few weeks ago, /etc/pam.d/common-password has
> password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5
> so I can be confidently entering my 200 character uber password thinking
> that it is hacker proof, when all the time debian is truncating it to
> eight characters... :-/
With "md5" the setting "max=" us useless since Woody.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
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