El [ Wed 25, Feb 04 - 16:41 ] , Luca Ferrari expreso:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to use password longer than 8 characters, so i set up my login.defs
> file with a PASS_MAX_LEN of 18 characters, but the system does not recognize
> the modification, and thus I can still log in with a 8 char password. How to
> solve the problem?
Try enabling md5 passwords, doing something like this on your /etc/pam.d/passwd file:
# ...
password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=5 md5
# ...
This is just an example. All the magik is done by the keyword md5.
Cheers
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Emiliano Castagnari
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