From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 18 02:19:50 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B46B36 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:19:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-x231.google.com (mail-ob0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F7F1F9D for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:19:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f177.google.com with SMTP id ta17so3936167obb.22 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:19:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=jccm7NcBaqg5DbI+kvicxOoywX8VC+TzKNA5Nebs1jk=; b=T8fszDyT4IrW0cf9obqFPQPzw93scRjlyjlZRZp9rWBm3e7NR92bkmA21f5JChxvjp pWR1/C/F/Ir7Hir0VDhrtycGR/jSy19DE7j9wmLW0MPBv6Vx0kfc1EyItipfyL6m/py9 gQWALYzBHfCqd988hwipOIbrMD8poutskgLxX0R4OR1nKrKn4eMMTYiS/QogAzyRQpCg ewbL0nv70rqC3HQhuzJ1DaVRMX0UCPWcz7XjXVsqWPthzP8PIbKuPQYlzmSx8Q621b8H +bLBM/b0A+VfxJw3CXnqdOdNWSkj3rNm21aaC2pTmH8VNwMRTHSATAaAxQq/n30RFbus waww== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.40.202 with SMTP id z10mr10707433obk.74.1371521989847; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:19:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.24.195 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:19:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:19:49 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD maximum password length From: Brandon Gooch To: tak.official@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:19:50 -0000 On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:35 AM, takCoder wrote: > Thank you, Mark, for your helpful answer :) > > yes, i am aware of the max username length of 16characters.. I just wanted > to become sure about password max length, cause i need to moderate it in my > self-built user interface.. > > Thank you again :) > > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > >> There isn't a max password length as far as I'm aware, but there is a max >> username length that drive me insane sometimes. I should really file a PR >> about that... Perhaps your PR is unnecessary: $ svn log -v -r243023 /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r243023 | bapt | 2012-11-14 04:58:12 -0600 (Wed, 14 Nov 2012) | 8 lines Changed paths: M /head/sys/sys/param.h Allow usernames up to 32 chars PR: kern/161091 [1], misc/133926 [2] Submitted by: Stephane Lapie [1], Chris Dillon [2] Reviewed by: cognet, kib ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The above would have saved me a few local diffs as well a few years ago... -Brandon