On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 21:16 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I checked both files and the proper entry is present in both files. What does the encrypted password look like in /etc/shadow (2nd field, delimited by :). If it's 13 characters starting with [a–zA–Z0–9./] it's crypt encrypted and limited to 8 characters. If it's 35 characters long and starts with $1$ it's md5 encrypted and can be longer than 8 characters. Even if md5 is set in authconfig and in system-auth, a crypt encrypted passwd will still be recognised in /etc/shadow. --- Ian
