From owner-freebsd-security Fri Nov 12 11:19:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E10814BCE for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:19:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA85672; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 21:19:17 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 21:19:17 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: "H. Eckert" Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of Passwords/etc in FreeBSD-stable In-Reply-To: <19991112002328.B81323@server.nostromo.in-berlin.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. >=20 > 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.=20 > 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... >=20 > Greetings, > =09=09=09=09Ripley > --=20 > H. Eckert, 10777 Berlin, Germany, http://www.in-berlin.de/User/nostromo/ > ISO 8859-1: =C4=3DAe, =D6=3DOe, =DC=3DUe, =E4=3Dae, =F6=3Doe, =FC=3Due, = =DF=3Dsz. > "(Technobabbel)" (Jetrel) - "M=FCssen wir uns diesen Schwachsinn wirklich > anh=F6ren?" (Neelix) >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message