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Does AIX support passwords longer than 8 characters? Yes!
Prior to AIX 5.3 TL7 and AIX 6.1,
there was an 8 character limit on AIX user passwords. If you need passwords of
greater than 8 characters then you must enable one of the supplied Loadable
Password Algorithms (LPAs). The following table lists the available algorithms
and the limitations of each: For example, to enable the MD5 algorithm
I can modify /etc/security/login.cfg file with the chsec command as follows:
# chsec -f
/etc/security/login.cfg -s usw -a pwd_algorithm=smd5 # tail -2
/etc/security/login.cfg
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