> I've discovered that login, sudo, gdm only take care of the first 8 > characters of the passwd. The following characters don't count. See the > following example (I've created a new user just to make the test)
If you are not using md5 passwords will have a max length of 8 characters. If you're using md5 your pam config for passwd etc should look something like this: password required pam_unix.so md5 And the passwords in the shadow file should start with $1$