From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 3 13:20:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02458 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 13:20:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from serveri.netti.fi (serveri.netti.fi [195.16.192.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02447 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 13:20:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr) Received: from turkey.ispro.net.tr (dyn-4-032.tku.netti.fi [195.16.223.34]) by serveri.netti.fi (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id XAA07379; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 23:19:29 +0300 Message-ID: <35C61BBC.14D8F852@turkey.ispro.net.tr> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 23:21:16 +0300 From: Evren Yurtesen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: k.brunner@acm.org CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: password length limit? References: <35C5F93B.2412D6F8@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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