Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 23:21:16 +0300 From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr> To: k.brunner@acm.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: password length limit? Message-ID: <35C61BBC.14D8F852@turkey.ispro.net.tr> References: <35C5F93B.2412D6F8@acm.org>
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are you using DES? I think DES has 8 character limit if you are using MD5 you may use more characters... Klaus A. Brunner wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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