On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:13:51 -0400 Kenneth Jacker <khj@be.cs.appstate.edu> wrote: > But how long can they effectively be? I.e., if I enter 100 chars > into the 'passwd' command, how many are actually used? > > All 100? ... I kind of doubt it ... > > I want to use the longest password possible in "wheezy", but don't > want to enter extra chars if, in fact, they are ignored. That should be 256 or even more, and to be sure that all characters are accounted, just: grep myusername /etc/shadow to see if the hash has changed (but I really doubt Debian would let you enter a p/w exceeding max length…) -- Corsican Proverb: If you feel like working, then sit and wait for it to pass!
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