From owner-freebsd-security Fri Nov 12 9:15:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.vr.IN-Berlin.DE (gnu.in-berlin.de [192.109.42.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0229214F67 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:15:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from server.nostromo.in-berlin.de!ripley@servicia.in-berlin.de) Received: from uriela.in-berlin.de (IDENT:root@servicia.in-berlin.de [192.109.42.145]) by mail.vr.IN-Berlin.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA25046 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 18:15:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from server.nostromo.in-berlin.de!ripley@servicia.in-berlin.de) Received: by uriela.in-berlin.de (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #1) id m11mLnW-000VRLC; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:51:46 +0100 (CET) Received: (from ripley@localhost) by server.nostromo.in-berlin.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA83368 for freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 00:23:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ripley) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 00:23:29 +0100 From: "H. Eckert" To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of Passwords/etc in FreeBSD-stable Message-ID: <19991112002328.B81323@server.nostromo.in-berlin.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Kris Kennaway on Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 10:20:21AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quoting Kris Kennaway (kris@hub.freebsd.org): > I don't see what you'd need a maximum password length variable for, but > there is already a minpasswordlen capability. Pre-3.x truncated passwords over 8 chars. As 3.x now supports longer passwords I found I had trouble with Netatalk filesharing, as the Mac's input field only allows 8 chars. So it could be useful in a user's environment to restrict the length so that the users can't set a password that's not going to work for them anyway... I have not yet tried whether MacOS 9 changes this behaviour, though... Greetings, Ripley -- H. Eckert, 10777 Berlin, Germany, http://www.in-berlin.de/User/nostromo/ ISO 8859-1: Ä=Ae, Ö=Oe, Ü=Ue, ä=ae, ö=oe, ü=ue, ß=sz. "(Technobabbel)" (Jetrel) - "Müssen wir uns diesen Schwachsinn wirklich anhören?" (Neelix) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message