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From: IO92395@MAINE.BITNET (T.C.A.Venkatesan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Couple of Questions
Message-ID: <91128.153038IO92395@MAINE.BITNET>
Date: 8 May 91 19:30:38 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System
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1. I just found out to my horror that the password length on my NeXT was
limited to just 8 letters. And here I was, having given myself lengthy
passwords, thinking no one could break one that long easily, when the
machine was having the last laugh seeing only the first eight. So is there
any way to set up passwd to see more than eight letters?????


2. Out of curiosity: Suppose I were to become su and delete the home directory
of some user without deleting his account, what would happen when that user
tries to login?? Would his account be automatically disabled when his home
directory is gone or would he get logged on to the root directory??


  I am using a '030 machine running NS 2.0.


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Thanks,      Venky.

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