Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:11:49 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Username and password limits Message-ID: <41F58EC5.9010702@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <41F5882D.1090606@calarts.edu> References: <41F5882D.1090606@calarts.edu>
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Sean Murphy wrote: > We would like to use first initial last name for usernames on FreeBSD. > I am use to Solaris which is normally eight and if you have a long > password on Solaris it doesn't care what you type after 6 characters. Solaris pays attention to 8 characters. > By default what is the max username and password limit in characters? If you are using traditional DES encryption, 8 and 8. If you use the fancy new MD5 hash, "_PASSWORD_LEN (currently 128 characters)". -- -Chuck
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