From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 22: 5:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kearneys.ca (cr1003527-a.rct1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.36.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6586F37BB42 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:05:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brent@kearneys.ca) Received: (qmail 37117 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Mar 2000 06:05:19 -0000 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:05:19 -0800 From: Brent Kearney To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: password length Message-ID: <20000315220519.A37016@kearneys.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/04w6evG8XlLl3ft" X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The man page for `passwd' states that, regarding the length of a password, "Its total length must be less than _PASSWORD_LEN (currently=20 128 characters)." It appears to be true, as when you use 'passwd' to change your password, you can enter a long password, and it properly veryfies that you re-enter the same long password. However, you only need to type the first 8 chars of the password to authenticate afterwards. Is there any way to fix this? I'm using FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE. -Brent /************************************************************************ *brent@kearneys.ca * *"NOTE: WE TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO ILLEGALLY *WITH THIS PROGRAM. WE CONDONE ILLEGAL AND MALICIOUS USE OF THIS *PROGRAM." * *--from sscan.c, by "jsbach" * ************************************************************************/ --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: 0xInw3tVmOa6nne7jWuLMGOd0vKg8rlf iQA/AwUBONB5nv5LgQMksPsjEQI6wQCfb7Ffx4WflnCcIeZefH5klLy+/wwAoM5Q G4Vy5EOW7ldLSXWZnllpXISK =efW0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message