In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Boo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm using sid's nis package. I noticed that when changing a password >using yppasswd, it seems to truncate the password, even if one keys in a >password that consists of say 12 characters. >So after the password is changed (password = 1234567890ab), i can log >in using 1234567890cd or so.
Welcome to Unix. >Any idea how I can make yppasswd accept more characters as password? Currently not possible. Mike. -- "I think...I think it's in my basement. Let me go upstairs and check." -- M.C. Escher (1898-1972)