On 30-Jan-2000 Ian C. Ware wrote:

hi,

typically, at least in most UNIX systems that I have worked on, not just LINUX, even though you set a different password, it only recognizes the first 8 characters. In your example, your second password was the same with the addition of two more characters.

good luck,

Ian

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