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From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Couple of questions
Message-ID: <1991May14.165148.8024@potomac.ads.com>
Date: 14 May 91 16:51:48 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Arlington, VA
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>>    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.


It wouldn't matter anyway.  The password stuff on BSD systems is not
based on crypt.  In general the password source code is not available
with the Berkeley distribution.



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