From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 3 10:54:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA07357 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 10:54:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from unet.univie.ac.at (unet.univie.ac.at [131.130.230.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07306 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 10:54:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from k.brunner@acm.org) Received: from acm.org (uvo-165.univie.ac.at [131.130.230.165]) by unet.univie.ac.at (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA33644 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 19:54:12 +0200 Message-ID: <35C5F93B.2412D6F8@acm.org> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 19:54:03 +0200 From: "Klaus A. Brunner" Reply-To: k.brunner@acm.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: password length limit? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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