Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 21:19:17 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "H. Eckert" <ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of Passwords/etc in FreeBSD-stable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991112211758.55108M-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <19991112002328.B81323@server.nostromo.in-berlin.de>
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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, H. Eckert wrote: > 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. It definately did not. Or if it did, then if you used DES passwords. FreeBSD 2.1.0 (and up) were all definately very capable of supporting longer than 8 characetr passwords. > 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
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