There are some New Features I’d like to make you aware of:

On our website, https://www.eskimo.com/, at the far right on the menu bar there is new button “Issues“.  Press on this button to see the latest news, whether it be outages or new features or something else.

The new NIS server is Linux based eliminating the compatibility issues that prevented passwords being changed directly by users.  You can now change your password on most shell servers by typing ‘passwd’, it will prompt for your old password and then the new password twice.  This works on all shell servers EXCEPT Ubuntu, Centos7, and Scientific7.

And on the subject of passwords, because the old system the password significant characters were only eight.  If you typed a longer password those after the first eight were ignored.  Now up to 16 characters are significant.  If your password is longer than eight character but does not work, try typing the first eight characters, if that works use passwd to change your password to the desired longer form.

If you create a new account today, logins are no longer limited to eight characters, but also can be as long as sixteen.  The application form has been updated to reflect this.