Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 12:43:23 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com> Cc: Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: only 8 chars of password needed to login Message-ID: <87438.954845003@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 01:10:59 -0400." <4.3.1.2.20000404011055.00d776b0@pseudonet.org>
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On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 01:10:59 -0400, Jim Conner wrote: > This is not a problem with your machine at all. ALL *nix's that I > have ever worked with only allow 8 character passwords. This is an > old standard. I take back that all *nix's I have ever worked with > were limited to only 8 character passwords...I have worked with some > that have been tweaked. Just so that you don't continue to spread misinformation, this isn't entirely true. FreeBSD out of the box without DES installed allows for passwords of lengths greater than 8 characters. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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