From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 23:47:27 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75A5F16A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:47:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.wanadoo.fr (smtp4.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3101143D46 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:47:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0407.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1826D1C003D8 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:47:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf0407.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 007E41C003D0 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:47:25 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050124234726211.007E41C003D0@mwinf0407.wanadoo.fr Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:47:25 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <10010017483.20050125004725@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <41F5882D.1090606@calarts.edu> References: <41F5882D.1090606@calarts.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Username and password limits X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:47:27 -0000 Sean Murphy writes: SM> We would like to use first initial last name for usernames on FreeBSD. SM> I am use to Solaris which is normally eight and if you have a long SM> password on Solaris it doesn't care what you type after 6 characters. Solaris uses only six-character passwords? I guess it cannot claim to be secure, in that case. -- Anthony