Brian Gupta wrote:
> Also what is the reason password is limited to eight chars?
In Solaris? Because you haven't activated the non-default
option to use a password hashing algorithm that can store more
than 8 chars worth of data, such as md5.
See the crypt.conf(4) man page for details.
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