From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 2 13:33:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from euriscom.com (dsl-216-227-20-81.telocity.com [216.227.20.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7761D37B55B for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 13:33:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from corey@euriscom.com) Received: from euriscom.com ([207.242.208.155]) by euriscom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00929 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 15:33:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from corey@euriscom.com) Message-ID: <393819DD.E333D58B@euriscom.com> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 15:32:29 -0500 From: Corey Wheeler Organization: Euriscom Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Password Lengths Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In FBSD 4.0, I've set the minpasswordlen=10:\ in my login.conf and run the cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf. I execute the passwd command while being logged in as myself. If I type in a new password that is shorter than the minpasswordlen, it warns me that my new password is too short. So, I enter a password of the correct length and confirm that password. However, when I log out and log back on, I can enter the first 8 characters of my password and it accepts it as being valid. Is there something I am missing here. I simply want to be able to set password lengths greater than 8 characters. Thanks in advance Corey Wheeler To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message