Suse user passwords

[ColdPack]

After I did a binge-burn the other day, downloading and burning 4 different distros, I installed Suse 7.0.
Honestly, I haven't been "wowed" by it (yet). Hard for any non-Debian distro to do, though. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif
What I don't understand is why, when I create a password for my regular user, it says it has truncated it to 8 characters.
I've never had this on my other distro installs. Is this a common thing?
The rotation of passwords I use are all about 10 characters long.
Also, I know I selected kde2 during the install but everytime X starts up, it goes to kde. Where do I change that? Do I create a ~/.xinitrc and put something like "exec kde2" thing in there?
Thanks in advance!

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[This message has been edited by ColdPack (edited 06 December 2000).]

[Boris]

YaST controls how many letters a password can have. You can change it there. And, there is a default GUI entry.....I -think- it was in initrc, but I've been drunk since then, so don't quote me on it. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif

BTW--the YaST thingie is accurate to SuSE 6.4, it -should- still be for 7.0. Good luck!



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