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To: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
Subject: Re: finger, login, etc.
From: itschere@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 12:47:01 +0100 (MET)
In-reply-to: <m0qzrFu-000OHmC@nasim.nasim.cube.net> from "Frank Bartels" at Oct 25, 94 08:09:57 pm

> > 	Secondly, I've noticed that login doesn't want more than 8 characters
> > in a passwd.  I made a longer passwd, but when I log in, the login
> > program drops me into my shell after I type in the first 8 characters.
>
> Hmm, this is a known bug and I *think* it is fixed in 1.4.1.

 But it does *not* cure that everything behind the 8th character gets
discarded. Is there any unix system which supports longer passwords?

ciao,
TeSche
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