The collected works of sunjnky

For Solaris 10, to enable longer passwords, edit /etc/security/policy.conf
and change:
CRYPT_DEFAULT=__unix__
to:
CRYPT_DEFAULT=md5

Then update /etc/default/passwd by changing the PASSLENGTH= to a value higher than the standard "6"

This solves the problem wherein a password can be long but that only the first 8 characters are used.

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