Just a quick update on an email Casper Dik just sent. I think this needs to be in the archive. Thanks a million Casper. Kind Regards, -Kevin -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Solaris 8 char password limit Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:19:04 +0200 From: Casper Dik <casper@holland.sun.com> To: Kevin.A.Sindhu@Mail.AC References: <3F89B3B0.7070100@mail.AC> <3F8B95D0.3090807@mail.AC> >Other Solution as proposed by Steve Sandau was to use npasswd. - >http://www.utexas.edu/cc/unix/software/npasswd/ Checking the npasswd documentation one finds: passwd.MaxPassword Usage Type Default value passwd.MaxPassword number 8* Sets the maximum effective length for passwords. This reflects a limitation of the standard crypt(3), which encrypts only the initial 8 characters of the plaintext. On Ultrix and Digital UNIX (aka OSF/1) with enhanced security, this limit is 16. It is not an error for a password to be longer than the maximum, but the password checker can be configured to issue a warning. See passwd.LengthWarn. Which clearly indicates that npasswd does not support passwords over 8 characters (certainly, the length of password which is supported by npasswd is irrelevant as it is the OS crypt() routine which decides what works. Casper _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Oct 14 11:22:39 2003
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