On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, der Mouse wrote:

> > I know ive asked this before, but are there no ways of getting 1.5.2
> > using longer passwords tehn 8 chars?
>
> I'm pretty sure NetBSD has handled longer passwords since well before
> the 1.5 branch, even.  I have long-password code of my own in my
> libcrypt, but the libcrypt I started with already had some such
> support.
>
> What makes you think long passwords aren't supported?

This easy test makes me think so :()

I set a password lets say qwerty123456 then i try to login

Login: root
Password:  ( i here type qwerty12 and enter)

VIOLA im logged in....

Lars

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