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Passwords in libranet



I was wondering how passwords in libranet (ver 1.9.1) are setup. I'm
guessing that they are shawdow passwords, but I have noticed, that like
many unix OS's, anything after the 8th charector is ignored. For example,
if you have user "tim" with password "abcdefgh", if you enter the password
"abcdefghijklmnop", you will login in because everything after the "h" is
ignored. Also, say tim's password is "abcdefghhgfedcba" and on login you
enter "abcdefgzzzzzzz" this will also be accepted. Like I said, this is
common in unix (the server at work is a Sun and it behaves in the same
way), but when I started using linux about 10 months ago, I had Mandrake,
which read much longer passwords (my root password was 14 charecters
long). I was currious as to what mandrake has the libranet does not that
allows for the longer passwords. I know that in mandrakes installation it
allows you to select options for shadow passwords and MD5. I know that
libranet presents you with no such options, but that I think that it at
least uses shadow passwords.  Anyways, if anyone knows aything about this,
I would love to hear your thoughts. And if anyone knows how to enable
longer passwords, let me know because I just got my ssh daemon running,
and despite my firewall, it still makes me a tad nervous.

jason


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