From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 27 15:31:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA16568 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:31:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from beowulf.llnl.gov (beowulf.llnl.gov [128.115.12.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA16505 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:30:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dsyphers@beowulf.llnl.gov) Received: from beowulf.llnl.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beowulf.llnl.gov (8.8.5/LLNL-3.0.2) with ESMTP id PAA01430; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808272229.PAA01430@beowulf.llnl.gov> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:29:54 -0700 (PDT) From: David Syphers Subject: Re: how come my passwords can only be 8 characters long? To: syang@directhit.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <35E5C42D.576806D4@dal.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27 Aug, Studded wrote: > 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. You might want to check out http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ219.html#219 first. -David Syphers "Stop turning into a penguin!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message