Password - Fedora Core 3

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Thu Jul 13 15:36:16 UTC 2006


On 7/13/06, fedora at m7info.com.br <fedora at m7info.com.br> wrote:
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> Hello all,
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> Fedora core 3 (with all updates until Jul/12/2006)
> has a problem with lenght of password
>

In most cases this is because the user has selected to not use md5sum
in authconfig. THis defaults to DES-HASH which only stores 8
characters. You need to use authconfig and turn on Use MD5sum and then
have users recreate their passwords.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator




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