[LinuxUsers] Ubuntu passwords

[Jeff Lasman]

On Sunday 09 November 2008 03:07 pm, Paul Saenz wrote:

> In the ubuntu start up password, which is the same as the sudo
> password, is there a maximum number of characters that can be used?

A bit of googling found me this:

https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/user-management.html

Specifically this (quote):

<snip>
The max=8 variable does not represent the maximum length of a password. 
It only means that complexity requirements will not be checked on 
passwords over 8 characters. You may want to look at the 
libpam-cracklib package for additional password entropy assistance. 
</snip>

Jeff
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