huynh.tuan(a)comcast.net wrote: DES-based Unix crypt only checks the first 8 characters. As I said, if you want longer passwords, then your current choice of password hash is no good. Use some other hash instead. This ITS will be closed. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/