On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 23:36 -0700, Jim Pazarena wrote: > I have just come to the realization that password encryption using the > crypt function in linux, ONLY USES THE FIRST 8 CHARS. I have written > routines using crypt allowing 16+ chars, and find that anything past 8 > is ignored. Wow. >
this was true in decades of old, but has not been the case for many, many, years - upgrade your system.
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