Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 19:54:03 +0200 From: "Klaus A. Brunner" <k.brunner@acm.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: password length limit? Message-ID: <35C5F93B.2412D6F8@acm.org>
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Is there an arbitrary length limit for user passwords in FreeBSD? On my FreeBSD 2.2.6 system, I created a user "test1" and assigned it the password "asdfgjkl99" (10 characters). However, I can log in using the passwords "asdfgjkl" (8 chars) or "asdfgjkl33" (first 8 chars identical). It seems that only the first 8 characters of the password are significant. Is this a bug or a feature? I couldn't find anything about it in the docs, except "man passwd(1)", which says that a password's total length must not exceed _PASSWORD_LEN, which is supposed to be 128 characters. TIA, -- Klaus A. Brunner Austria, Europe -- k.brunner@acm.org http://unet.univie.ac.at/~a926334/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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