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12 Character Passwords
What's your suggestion about large Unix servers (e.g. Sun, AIX) that only support 8 character passwords? This limit is documented in the "passwd" man pages for the respective servers.

SunOS 5.9: "Only the first eight characters are significant"

AIX 5.2: "The passwd command uses only the first eight characters of your password for local and NIS passwords."
Posted by Jack
25th Jan 2008