On Mon, Aug 13, Jan Schledermann wrote:
Scream: yast Chose: System administration->Security settings->configuration of/etc/login.defs->Maximum length of passwords. (Don't forget to change all the passwords again since they where truncated when you first entered them. Standard login doesn't care but X does (and ssh)
No, this does not prevent your password from truncting after 8 characters. The normal crypt() can only handle 8 characters. Read /usr/share/doc/packages/pam/README.md5 But I would not use it. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Deutschherrenstr. 15-19 D-90429 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B