6 Apr
2013
6 Apr
'13
9:57 a.m.
On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 23:36 -0700, Jim Pazarena wrote:
I have just come to the realization that password encryption using the crypt function in linux, ONLY USES THE FIRST 8 CHARS. I have written routines using crypt allowing 16+ chars, and find that anything past 8 is ignored. Wow.
this was true in decades of old, but has not been the case for many, many, years - upgrade your system.