Pisinho wrote:
Do you have MD5 passwords set up? You can check by looking at the
password fields in /etc/shadow: if they don't start with "$1$",
they're standard (DES) passwords, which will ignore anything after the
first 8 characters of the password.
If this is the case, you'd have to set up MD5 passwords to have more
than 8 significant characters in a password. That would mean
resetting all of your existing passwords once you were through.
I'm afraid I don't know enough about PAM to advise you how to set up
MD5 passwords. I do know that if you're going to messing about in the
PAM config, you should copy the original files elsewhere before you
start, and make sure you keep a root console open while you're testing
your changes. If you muck up your PAM configuration, you might lose
the ability to log in, so if you don't have a root console open, you
won't be able to fix the problem without resorting to booting from a
recovery CD or etc.
Ed
