Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:15:02 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Username and password limits Message-ID: <20050125001502.GA46047@seekingfire.com> In-Reply-To: <41F58C36.4030302@calarts.edu> References: <41F5882D.1090606@calarts.edu> <10010017483.20050125004725@wanadoo.fr> <41F58C36.4030302@calarts.edu>
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 04:00:55PM -0800, Sean Murphy wrote:
> Sorry eight for password as well.
> Does any know the limits for FreeBSD?
man 1 passwd says
The new password should be at least six characters long (which may be
overridden using the login.conf(5) ``minpasswordlen'' setting for a
user's login class) and not purely alphabetic. Its total length must be
less than _PASSWORD_LEN (currently 128 characters).
-T
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