From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 00:15:03 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 40D0D16A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:15:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (caliban.rospa.ca [24.72.10.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEAA843D41 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:15:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 309BF235; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:15:02 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:15:02 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050125001502.GA46047@seekingfire.com> References: <41F5882D.1090606@calarts.edu> <10010017483.20050125004725@wanadoo.fr> <41F58C36.4030302@calarts.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41F58C36.4030302@calarts.edu> X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/personal/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers X-Tillman-rules: yes he does User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: Username and password limits X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:15:03 -0000 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 -- Truth is a chameleon. - Zensunni Aphorism