From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 8 1:53:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [204.97.17.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1C8B37B61D for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 01:52:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (right/backatcha) with ESMTP id e388qQu04915; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 04:52:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 04:52:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson To: rjk191@psu.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: two questions: makecontext, etc; password length In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 2) Why are passwords limited to 8 characters? Whether it be xdm, > login, or su, only the first 8 characters are processed, and the > rest of the text can be anything I want, or nothing at all. I was > under the impression that the maximum length of passwords was 25 > characters. In the FreeBSD 4.0 getpass(3) it says: The password may be up to _PASSWORD_LEN (currently 128) characters in length. Any additional characters and the terminating newline character are discarded. The date on that man page is June 4, 1993. __ Trevor Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message