RE: Password truncated

[Rajesh Kumar <rajeshk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The password is quite normal. In fact Sun-Solaris recognizes only first
eight characters of the password. 

Regards
Rajesh
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	charmie@xxxxxxxxxxxx [SMTP:charmie@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Friday, April 20, 2001 1:00 PM
> Subject:	[linux-delhi] Password truncated
> 
> 
>    Was trying out a SuSE 7.0 installation .. due to a bad HDD with a few 
> thousand bad sectors, the installation messed up. -- However, when am 
> trying to assign a password for the root or create the inital password for
> 
> root. Its truncating my password to 8 characters - is that normal ? Or, 
> that's due to the messy installation ..
> 
> Also, RH 6.0 used to run pretty cool on that disk, tho, X-server created 
> some problems but SuSE couldn't just complete the installation .. it even 
> had problem with RH 6.2 so I moved back..does that show, RH 6.0 is a 
> powerful distro than RH 6.2 or SuSE or something of that sort ? Dunno just
> 
> couldn't think of something else ..
> 
> 
> 
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