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Date:      Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:24:11 +0200 (EET)
From:      Yury Yaroshevsky <yk@info.dgtu.donetsk.ua>
To:        richard@cube3.erinet.com (Richard Stanaford)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Password Characters Not Required???
Message-ID:  <199803201224.OAA12720@info.dgtu.donetsk.ua>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980319134217.4796A-100000@cube3.erinet.com> from "Richard Stanaford" at "Mar 19, 98 01:59:38 pm"

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>   Indeed it is normal.  FreeBSD takes only the first 8 significant
	Why???  My password length is 12 chars ;)

> characters and then truncates the rest.  This is not FreeBSD specific. 
		^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	And any from this chars don`t truncates.
	Under FreeBSD password length may be up to 128 chars.
	see /usr/include/pwd.h

	I'm checked this.

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