password limits of 8 characters on FC4

[Sam Varshavchik]

Gregory P. Ennis writes:

> 
> Everyone,
> 
> I noticed a difference with my passwords on FC4 compared to FC1 and FC3.
> It appears that there is a limit of 8 characters on FC4 that was not
> present on FC1 or FC3.  Also, my FC4 system does did not recognize the
> difference in passwords between anyname1234 and anyname1.  It appears
> that password matching occurs with only the first 8 characters.

Run 'authconfig'.

You should have both “Use MD5 Passwords” and “Use Shadow Passwords” checked 
under the “Authentication” section.


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20050716/2b166111/attachment-0001.sig>