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1. How can I enforce a delay when people get thier passwords wrong, before another attempt. (Yes this is an attempt to stop password hacking programs)
2. This one may surprise some people. I have found that if your password is 20 characters long you only need to type the first 8 to get in. Is there somewhere to change this so that the FULL password is required?
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,602
Rep:
If you are using crypt() for password encryption then you are limited to the first 8 characters of a password. During the install you should have seen an option to use MD5 for password encryption. This will allow you to use passwords longer than 8 characters. You should be able to use authconfig to change to MD5 if you didn't choose it at install.
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,602
Rep:
If you are using crypt() for password encryption then you are limited to the first 8 characters of a password. During the install you should have seen an option to use MD5 for password encryption. This will allow you to use passwords longer than 8 characters. You should be able to use authconfig to change to MD5 if you didn't choose it at install.
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