Abhishek Jain wrote:
> Hi
> Thanks for your kind response.
> Sorry that did not worked out. I changed the line of the file 
> /etc/sysconfig/authconfig from no to yes and restarted the server.
> But again the 8 digits password were being accepted instead.
> Also you told of authconfig but when i typed that '-bash-2.05b# authconfig' 
> I got the response '-bash: authconfig: command not found';
> 

As I had said before, have you *changed* the password of this user after
changing that sysconfig file, before trying to login using this password??

If it still doesnt work after changing the password, send us the line of
your /etc/shadow which corresponds to this user.

- Sandip

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