You have to be kidding. On Wednesday 11 July 2001 06:39 am, you wrote:

welcome to linux !

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Von: phil Datum: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 06:36:02 -0700 An: suse-security@suse.com Betreff: [suse-security] password length is only 8 characters?!?!?

I just noticed that the password length is being truncated to 8 characters. How can I up that to say 40 characters? I tried setting in YaST1 and YaST2 and when I set it to 40 it still truncates it back down to 8.