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etc/login.defs: Clarify PASS_MAX_LEN usage
authorTobias Stoeckmann <tobias@stoeckmann.org>
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:15:00 +0000 (12:15 +0000)
committerAlejandro Colomar <foss+github@alejandro-colomar.es>
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:01:11 +0000 (17:01 +0100)
The PASS_MAX_LEN option is only used with DES.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias@stoeckmann.org>
etc/login.defs

index 4f60724ecfab320cbb89e7a3fd36963ca85ee4dc..966724c725df34772f2b4fbf2d9bbb2d9ae692d5 100644 (file)
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ PASS_ALWAYS_WARN    yes
 #
 # Number of significant characters in the password for crypt().
 # Default is 8, don't change unless your crypt() is better.
-# Ignored if MD5_CRYPT_ENAB set to "yes".
+# Only used for DES encryption algorithm.
 #
 #PASS_MAX_LEN          8