From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 19 11:01:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16080 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:01:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vs1.virtualisys.com ([207.137.172.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15979 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:01:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from randyk@ccsales.com) Received: from ntrkcasa (pool42.hiper.net [207.137.172.42]) by vs1.virtualisys.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA04891; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:21:19 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980319102045.04df95a0@ccsales.com> X-Sender: randyk@ccsales.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:20:45 -0800 To: Bob Vaughan From: "Randy A. Katz" Subject: Re: Password Characters Not Required??? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199803191810.KAA00368@tantivy.stanford.edu> References: <3.0.5.32.19980319095638.033a8cb0@ccsales.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Boy!!! Am I dumb! Sorry Jordan (about the uppercase characters), that was just my NEWBIE SHOCK. At 10:10 AM 3/19/98 -0800, you wrote: >as far as I know, only the first 8 characters of the passwd are used. >(it's always been this way, in every unix i've ever used over the last 8-10 >years..) Thanx, Randy Katz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message