[SunHELP] PASSLENGTH attribute in /etc/default/passwd doesn't appear to work

[Katherine Strojny]

> I've changed the PASSLENGTH value to 12 in /etc/default/passwd, but it
> still acknowledges a length less than this.  There is only one patch
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> found for Solaris 2.5.  We run 2.8.
>
> Does anyone has a similar issue ?
>
> Thanks, Y. Mui.

Haven't played with this, but was just reading that PASSLENGTH values above
8 default to 8.

-k