Solaris, an otherwise good quality enterprise operating system, had an 8-character limit just like that for decades. They only fixed it in the default configur

Solaris, an otherwise good quality enterprise operating system, had an 8-character limit just like that for decades. They only fixed it in the default configuration maybe five years ago. You can read about it here: http://blog.mc-thias.org/?title=solaris-10-password-length-limitation&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 http://blog.mc-thias.org/?title=solaris-10-password-length-l...