8-character limit for root password in SuSE-6.4

From: G. Hugh Song (hugh@lucia.kjist.ac.kr)
Date: Mon Jul 03 2000 - 08:13:55 PDT

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    Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 00:13:55 +0900 (KST)
From: "G. Hugh Song" <hugh@lucia.kjist.ac.kr>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10007040012090.3147-100000@lucia.kjist.ac.kr>
Subject: 8-character limit for root password in SuSE-6.4

    I really don't understand why SuSE imposed such a strange limit
    for the number of characters of the root password.
    How can I eliminate such a limit?

    Thank you.

    G. Hugh Song

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