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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Increase Password length Post 302353811 by Franklin52 on Wednesday 16th of September 2009 09:26:49 AM
Old 09-16-2009
Check the /etc/default/security file for system wide settings.
Note that despite the possibility to use more characters, only the first 8 are used.

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WCSCSPN(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							WCSCSPN(3)

NAME
wcscspn - search a wide-character string for any of a set of wide characters SYNOPSIS
#include <wchar.h> size_t wcscspn(const wchar_t *wcs, const wchar_t *reject); DESCRIPTION
The wcscspn() function is the wide-character equivalent of the strcspn(3) function. It determines the length of the longest initial seg- ment of wcs which consists entirely of wide-characters not listed in reject. In other words, it searches for the first occurrence in the wide-character string wcs of any of the characters in the wide-character string reject. RETURN VALUE
The wcscspn() function returns the number of wide characters in the longest initial segment of wcs which consists entirely of wide-charac- ters not listed in reject. In other words, it returns the position of the first occurrence in the wide-character string wcs of any of the characters in the wide-character string reject, or wcslen(wcs) if there is none. CONFORMING TO
C99. SEE ALSO
strcspn(3), wcspbrk(3), wcsspn(3) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. GNU
1999-07-25 WCSCSPN(3)
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