Original Question:
Is it possible to setup a minimum NIS password length >8 characters?
Repsondents:
Casper Dik <Casper.Dik@holland.sun.com>
Vern Walls <Vern.Walls@parsons.com>
jonathan.loh <jonathan.loh@bankofamerica.com>
Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>
Todd Herr <therr@va.rr.com>
Todd M. Wilkinson <tmwilkin@mail.com>
Tom Lichti <rmslashstar@home.com>
Lefteris Skapetis <skapetis@intranet.gr>
Answer:
No.
The bottleneck is the crypt(3c) function which states:
...[snip]
char *crypt (const char *key, const char *salt);
The key argument points to a string to be encoded (for exam-
ple, the user's password.) Only the first eight characters
are used; the rest are ignored.
...[snap]
Alan
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