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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Couple of questions
Message-ID: <1991May13.092937.25030@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 13 May 91 09:29:37 GMT
References: <91128.150648IO92395@MAINE.BITNET>
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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In article <91128.150648IO92395@MAINE.BITNET>, IO92395@MAINE.BITNET (T.C.A.Venkatesan) writes:
> 1. I just found out to my horror that the password length on my NeXT
>    was limited to just 8 letters.

More precisely, everything past that is ignored.  At least if they use
the same password hashing scheme every other even vaguely UNIXish
system does.

>    So is there any way to set up passwd to see more than eight
>    letters?????

Sure.  Hack on crypt(3) to your heart's content, then rebuild passwd
and login.

What's that, you say?  Rebuild how?  Oh yes, that's right, NeXT thinks
binary distributions are reasonable.  Gee, I guess you're stuck.
(Unless you want to try making similar changes by disassembling and
editing the binaries.  And NeXT doesn't even provide adb.  Yup, you're
*really* stuck.)

					der Mouse

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