From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 19 10:54:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA14358 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:54:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cube3.erinet.com (cube3.erinet.com [198.6.245.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14259; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:54:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richard@cube3.erinet.com) Received: from localhost (richard@localhost) by cube3.erinet.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA04860; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:59:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from richard@cube3.erinet.com) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:59:38 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Stanaford To: "Randy A. Katz" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password Characters Not Required??? In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980319095638.033a8cb0@ccsales.com> 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 Indeed it is normal. FreeBSD takes only the first 8 significant characters and then truncates the rest. This is not FreeBSD specific. BSDI is the same way, along with Solaris and other flavors of Unix, I believe. Please don't crosspost.. this question did not have to go to -stable. :-) - Richard. On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Randy A. Katz wrote: > 1. Is this normal? > 2. Is it sane? > 3. Is it posted somewhere? > > PS - In case anyone asks, this is for telnet access. > > Thanx, > Randy Katz > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message