hello i am trying to change my password, but when i type in the new password i get this:
“The password is longer than 8 characters. On some systems, this can cause problems. You can truncate the password to 8 characters, or leave it as it is.”
my question is what kind of problem could i get and how can i change so i have to log in every time i start the computer?
I don’t know where there would be a problem with PW longer then 8. But I guess the developers may know of such problems.
You can stop auto login several ways. If KDE the easiest way is Personal settings- Advanced - Login Manager-Convenience. Uncheck the auto-login box
There should be the equivalent in gnome.
The only place with a 8 character or less password limitation or less is in the bios.
In the days of using DES to encrypt the passwords only the first 8 characters were used. So if the password was “secret1234” and someone entered “secret1290” the password would be accepted.
These days noone uses DES to encrypt passwords so I don’t think it’ll be an issue. Are you changing the password from the command line or through a gui somewhere?
i am just doing it through personal settings-> Password & User Account-> Change Password
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Is this an OpenSUSE system and, if so, a 10.x or 11.x system? I am pretty
sure Blowfish has been the default for long enough that nothing even
semi-current should be using DES as cpackham mentioned, though if you set
it to use DES explicitly then this is what you get as well.
Good luck.
Matti93 wrote:
> i am just doing it through personal settings-> Password & User Account->
> Change Password
>
>
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that auto-login box wasn’t checked, so i checked it and was able to check another box which said Lock session but then when i restarted the computer i was logged in but my screen saver was running and i had to unlock the computer. That works fine, thank you very much 
but i was hoping that it would be like so: http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/3/32/OS11.2M7-kdm.png
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 14:56 +0000, Matti93 wrote:
> hello i am trying to change my password, but when i type in the new
> password i get this:
> “The password is longer than 8 characters. On some systems, this can
> cause problems. You can truncate the password to 8 characters, or leave
> it as it is.”
>
> my question is what kind of problem could i get and how can i change so
> i have to log in every time i start the computer?
>
>
If for some reason you are using DES and not Blowfish or MD5 for the
password hashes, then you’ll be limited to 8. Also, if your host is
tied to NIS, it also uses DES for portability (arguably you might
be able to use md5 fairly universally with NIS now).
So… unless you are using some kind of centralized auth (like NIS),
my guess is that this will not pose much of an issue.
I don’t recommend trying to turn on auto-login. You can try
going into YaST and under Users and Group do the Expert Options
and select Auto Login for the user.
Thank you all for your help, it’s greatly appreciated and i hope sometime i will be able to contribute my knowledge to this forum 
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:06:02 GMT, dale14846 <dale14846@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
>gogalthorp;2100582 Wrote:
>> I don’t know where there would be a problem with PW longer then 8. ButI
>> guess the developers may know of such problems.
>>
>> You can stop auto login several ways. If KDE the easiest way is
>> Personal settings- Advanced - Login Manager-Convenience. Uncheck the
>> auto-login box
>>
>> There should be the equivalent in gnome.
>
>The only place with a 8 character or less password limitation or less
>is in the bios.
I have used websites with an 8 character max password length. I also told
them what i thought about it.
Web sites are a different animal.
well, at work i have to support applications on around 200 servers. incidentally all the hp servers have a limitation of 8 characters. There are no restrictions on linux. whoever admin is installing the operating system is not doing something or the default changed as we have some old hp which don’t have this limitation.
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:26:02 GMT, dmera <dmera@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org>wrote:
>
>well, at work i have to support applications on around 200 servers.
>incidentally all the hp servers have a limitation of 8 characters. There
>are no restrictions on linux. whoever admin is installing the operating
>system is not doing something or the default changed as we have some old
>hp which don’t have this limitation.
If you find the admin please inform 'em that the 14 character rainbow book
of MS password hashes has been published. Thus ALL MS passwords shorter
than 15 characters are insecure.
