From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 03:23:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA09165 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 03:23:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA09151 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 03:23:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-root@i-zone.demon.co.uk) Received: from (i-zone.demon.co.uk) [158.152.227.78] by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0z4NCr-0006xS-00; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 10:23:37 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 10:02:32 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: John Subject: Re: password length limit? References: <35C5F93B.2412D6F8@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <35C5F93B.2412D6F8@acm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike (32) Version 4.00 beta 9 <5jmCrxUbpyYdwGXid1yqlWD9$N> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <35C5F93B.2412D6F8@acm.org>, Klaus A. Brunner writes >On my FreeBSD 2.2.6 system, I created a user "test1" and assigned it the >password "asdfgjkl99" (10 characters). However, I can log in using the >passwords "asdfgjkl" (8 chars) or "asdfgjkl33" (first 8 chars >identical). It seems that only the first 8 characters of the password >are significant. Only the first 8 chars are significant. As to whether this is a bug or a feature, I guess it depends on your point of view! (As an aside, ssh also behaves in this way) -- John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message