irixpgmr wrote:
foetz wrote:
you could crypt on your own and paste it into shadow...
Actually, I talked to a person at SGI. The problem is not the password program, it is the login program. Login only looks at the first 8 characters regardless of how many are set by passwd. He suggested that pam might help with this, but he wasn't sure. I have next to no exprerience setting up pam.
Perhaps there is another way, which I am unaware.
well, depends on which auth. mechanism you rely.
however i think a good 8 chars password should be sufficient. there're many other more critical things to do first and if you're that paranoid you have to use trusted irix anyway