Passwords longer than 8 letter in Red Hat 4
- by Oz123
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...)!