[ale] crypt()

[pekstrom at rugrat.org (Peter Ekstrom)]

Chris,

I believe that the number of characters actually used in a password varies
between different implementations of UNIX (and most likely other OSes as well).

I know Solaris only uses the first 8 characters, I think Linux is the same way
but I'm not sure about that.  Someone please correct me if I'm wrong!

//Peter

> I'm using the crypt function to check a users passwd word against one in the
> /etc/passwd file.  For testing purposes, the password is password.  I've
> noticed that when I issue any character past 8 characters that
> the user enters at the password prompt gets ignored by crypt().  I allow the
> user to enter a 32 character password so it they enter password12345 they
> will be allowed access when password is the real password.
> Has anyone else seen this?
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