> 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?

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