Passwords longer than 8 letter in Red Hat 4

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Published on 2011-01-19T14:07:52Z Indexed on 2011/02/19 7:26 UTC
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I have some machines with RHEL4 Nahant Update 6. Oddly, I found that passwords longer than 8 digits are not stored.

So if I had a password 1ABCDEa!, and I changed it to 1ABCDEa!1ABCDEa! I could still log in to the machine with the old password.

This machines use NIS authentication, but other machines with Red Hat 5 which use the same NIS server allow login ONLY with the NEW password (16 digits long...)!

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