Re: lenght of password

["Martin A. Marques" <martin math unl edu ar>]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Michal Kolesar wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am RH6.1 user. Where can I set minimal lenght of user login password?
> 
> I want that users must set their password only ">10" characters.
> When some user will change his password, ex. to 'aaabbb', get error that

AFAIK, the normal behaviour of shadow password is to keep passwords with
8 characters of length. So everything after the eighth character will be
striped.

Saludos... :-)

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