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Date:      Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:00:55 -0800
From:      Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Username and password limits
Message-ID:  <41F58C36.4030302@calarts.edu>
In-Reply-To: <10010017483.20050125004725@wanadoo.fr>
References:  <41F5882D.1090606@calarts.edu> <10010017483.20050125004725@wanadoo.fr>

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Anthony Atkielski wrote:

>Sean Murphy writes:
>
>SM> We would like to use first initial last name for usernames on FreeBSD.
>SM> I am use to Solaris which is normally eight and if you have a long 
>SM> password on Solaris it doesn't care what you type after 6 characters.
>
>Solaris uses only six-character passwords?  I guess it cannot claim to
>be secure, in that case.
>
>  
>
Sorry eight for password as well.
Does any know the limits for FreeBSD?



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