Luca Ferrari wrote: > 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? Sounds like your system still uses crypt passwords... which kinda makes it a really old system :) I'd recommend a system update. Jens - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html