passwords in debian

[plasmid]

I'm switching from mandrake to libranet(debain). One difference I have noticed so far is how passwords are handled. right now, debian ignores everything after 8 charecters (a la unix). Mandrake read much longer passwords (maybe has something to do with shadow passwords...I just don't know). anyways, does anyone know what I need to do to get longer passwords running on debian?

-plasmid

[rod]

Take a look in /etc/pam.d/passwd. I have a line that looks like this and I have md5 enabled:

password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5

My password is larger than 8 characters and works fine.

I was poking around in pam.d and seen that that line also appears in /etc/pam.d/login

Regards,
Rod

[ 15 April 2001: Message edited by: rod ]

[Siskmarek]

Seems to me that most distros are alright... it is the kind of computer you have that determines whether a distro is a 5-star winner or if it needs to be flushed down the toilet. Also, what you plan on doing with your version of linux (development, server, etc.) might make a diff.

~ Siskie