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Subject: Re: FreeBSD maximum password length
From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
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I know this may seem off-the-wall to some, but I pasted a hashed
password for a user under 9.1 into the /etc/passwd entry for that user
on an 8.3 machine, and auth continues to work properly.  That's nice.

- M