big problem with password length

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- --On Thursday, December 18, 2008 4:00 PM +0100 Gabriele Di Giambelardini <g.digiambelardini at fabaris.it> wrote:

> I to all,
> I have a big problem with my fedora-ds-1.0.4-1.RHEL4, my passwords are "CRYPT"
>
> the problem:
>
> when I change the password an one user es 123456789 the fedara-ds register only the fiirst 8 character. so If I try to login is sufficient write the password 12345678 the last character isn't necessary..
>
> How I can force fedora-ds to register oll my password characters?
>
>
> thanks....
>
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Traditional unix CRYPT limits password length to 8 characters. In order to use longer passwords, you have to use a different encryption algorithm.

  -paul

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