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To provide effective security, a password should be between five and eight
characters long. The maximum length for a password is 128 characters.
However, if no special security modules are loaded, only the first eight
characters are used to discern the password. Passwords are case-sensitive.
Special characters like umlauts are not allowed. Other special characters
(7-bit ASCII) and the digits 0 to 9 are allowed.
Two additional options are available for local users:
‘Receive System Messages via E-Mail’
Checking this box sends the user messages created by the system ser-
vices. These are usually only sent to root, the system administrator.
This option is useful for the most frequently used account, because it
is highly recommended to log in as root only in special cases.
‘Automatic Login’ This option is only available if KDE is used as the de-
fault desktop. It automatically logs the current user into the system
when it starts. This is mainly useful if the computer is operated by
only one user. For the automatic login to work, the option must be
explicitly enabled.
Caution
Automatic Login
With the automatic login enabled, the system boots straight into
your desktop with no authentication whatsoever. Therefore, if
you store sensitive data on your system, you should not enable
this option if the computer can also be accessed by others.
Caution
1.8.9 Reading the Release Notes
After completing the user authentication setup, YaST displays the release
notes. Reading them is advised because they contain important up-to-date
information that was not available when the manuals were printed. If you
have installed update packages, you will be reading the most recent ver-
sion of the release notes, as fetched from SUSE’s servers.
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