While this is vaguely phrased (your subject implies a password length
limit, but your email body implies a username limit), I will mention
that I have been using god-awful long passwords in various Linux
distributions including MDK since 1996. I have seen certain limits on
usernames at eight characters, but not passwords. Personally I use no
less than 10 characters in any of my passwords.
While you can use more than eight characters for a username, you will
find as in the case of your pop server that it may be code limited at
eight in some support utilities and that the install program may have
simply been trying to save you grief by imposing that limit too. Using
the adduser command, I believe, does not impose the eight character
restriction.
Woody
On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 14:03, Albert E. Whale wrote:
> I have encountered a limit of 8 characters when defining New Users.
> Since this is only one of the many Systems (most of which are Mandrake)
> I manage, I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem.
>
> On RedHat I had authentication issues for the pop server which were
> corrected with changes to the /etc/pam.d/pop file. Has anyone resolved
> this problem yet?
>
>
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