From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 13:11:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rjk191.rh.psu.edu (RJK191.rh.psu.edu [128.118.193.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 977E514EC4 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:11:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ray@rjk191.rh.psu.edu) Received: (from ray@localhost) by rjk191.rh.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA08580; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:09:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ray) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:09:34 -0500 (EST) From: Ray To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: Posted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: two questions: makecontext, etc; password length Reply-To: rjk191@psu.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Two questions for the group: 1) Is there a BSD equivalent of makecontext, getcontext, swapcontext, and the like that Solaris has? These are system calls that deal with contexts of user processes. 2) Why are passwords limited to 8 characters? Whether it be xdm, login, or su, only the first 8 characters are processed, and the rest of the text can be anything I want, or nothing at all. I was under the impression that the maximum length of passwords was 25 characters. -- Ray Kohler KING?-> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message