Are passwords on modern Unix/Linux systems still limited to 8 characters?

Question

Years ago it used to be the case that Unix passwords were limited to 8 characters, or that if you made the password longer than 8 characters the extra wouldn\'t make any differe

Answer 1

I think around the time when actual passwords were moved from /etc/passwd to shadow, on Linux . I am guessing around 2000, Red Hat 6.x had long passwords IIRC. Around 2000 there were still a lot of old SUN, and they had password and username limits.