From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 20 04:27:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA16489 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 04:27:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dpi.dgtu.donetsk.ua (root@dipt-38.4K-dgtu-gw.dgtu.donetsk.ua [194.44.183.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA16471; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 04:26:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yk@info.dgtu.donetsk.ua) Received: from info.dgtu.donetsk.ua (root@info.dgtu.donetsk.ua [194.44.183.7]) by dpi.dgtu.donetsk.ua (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA20184; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:24:11 +0200 (EET) Received: (from yk@localhost) by info.dgtu.donetsk.ua (8.8.7/8.8.5) id OAA12720; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:24:11 +0200 (EET) From: Yury Yaroshevsky Message-Id: <199803201224.OAA12720@info.dgtu.donetsk.ua> Subject: Re: Password Characters Not Required??? In-Reply-To: from "Richard Stanaford" at "Mar 19, 98 01:59:38 pm" To: richard@cube3.erinet.com (Richard Stanaford) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:24:11 +0200 (EET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message