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To: Nader Turki <nturki@adelphia.net>
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Subject: Re: wierd!
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The default maximum lenght of a passwd is 8 characters. The rest is
truncated.

On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Nader Turki wrote:

> hi there,
> 
> I installed FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE like 2 weeks ago and last week i
> upgraded to FreeBSD 4.3-RC.
> 
> I have the shell and there's something weird about it. I set my password
> to "ViewSonic" but the thing is both "ViewSonic" and "ViewSonix" work
> ...
> 
> I just though to let you know .... maybe something wrong with my system?
> not sure
> 
> thanks,
> 
> nader
> 
> 
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