From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 27 13:41:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24929 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 13:41:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24917 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 13:41:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA08063; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 13:40:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <35E5C42D.576806D4@dal.net> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 13:40:13 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-0823 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Yang CC: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: how come my passwords can only be 8 characters long? References: <839A86AB6CE4D111A52200104B938D43059F04@MOE> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steven Yang wrote: > > Hi, it seems that all passwords are limited to 8 characters. I'm confused by this. Why does it seem so? And are you sure that you mean passwords and not usernames? > I'm using > FreeBSD 2.2.5 and 2.2.6. Is there a way to make passwords longer? If you actually mean passwords, my guess is that DES is installed on that machine. You want to rebuild or reinstall the system without that option. If you mean usernames, it's fairly simple to rebuild the system to use > 8 character usernames. Either write the list or write me privately and I'll give you info on that. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** When you don't know where you're going, every road will take you there. - Yiddish Proverb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message