Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug is likely a duplicate of bug 287134 and the related bug 51551, which caused crypt(3) passwords to be used. Assuming you've applied the security update for http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-663-1 if you change your password, it should either get converted to an MD5 password or a SHA512 password, and thus not be subject to the 8 character limit. MD5 hashed passwords in /etc/shadow will be prefixed with $1$ and SHA512 hashes will have the prefix $6$; crypt(3) hashes will contain no such prefix.
If you change your password and you still are getting crypt(3) hashes, then either there there is a pam configuration issue or something was incomplete with the update. Please feel free to report additional issues you come across while using Ubuntu. Thanks again. -- Ubuntu 8.10 Password Bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322604 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
