Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:24:10 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: Richard Stanaford <richard@cube3.erinet.com> Cc: "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password Characters Not Required??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980319172128.23320A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980319134217.4796A-100000@cube3.erinet.com>
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On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Richard Stanaford wrote: > 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. However, BSD/OS allows you to modify the max password length for userclasses, up to 128 characters I think? Similarly, the password behavior here is a function of the crypt() used -- with Kerberos, you get whatever the Kerberos behavior is -- it certainly has more significant characters, however. I would personally like to see change in behavior here, perhaps as a login.conf option similar to BSD/OS. I don't see one in the -stable login.conf man page, however. Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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