Hi semat,
This is how I did it I hope I did not unintentionally open myself up but at least it works. Edit /etc/pam.d/login and edit the line that says password required /lib/security/pam_pwcheck.so nullok md5
the md5 wa added by me I did this because in /etc/login.defs there was a comment saying # number of significant characters in the password for crypt() # ....etc ignored if th "md5" option is given to the pam_pwcheck option obviously I wanted to use md5 thus I added my option and now I can use longer passwords.
I just tried your solution and changed my /etc/pam.d/login to password required /ib/security/pam_pwcheck.so nullok md5 use_cracklib without any success. The passwords get cut to 8 characters. I am using SuSE 7.0 and of course i'm interested in using longer passwords. Any ideas? * * Ihr Formel4-Team * mailto:info@formel4.de *