Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:23:20 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: tak.official@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD maximum password length Message-ID: <44li69diyv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <CAPkyVLw=m5-3HX7YC-Zqm=OgTLMhNYq4trBSWso8qEmPzqV38Q@mail.gmail.com> (takCoder's message of "Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:34:23 %2B0430") References: <CAPkyVLw=m5-3HX7YC-Zqm=OgTLMhNYq4trBSWso8qEmPzqV38Q@mail.gmail.com>
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takCoder <tak.official@gmail.com> writes: > As i googled it, there is no maximum limitations for users' password > length by default.. But we may use *pam_passwdqc* module with *max* option > to check it when required. > > And i've heard that no-maximum-limits for passwords length is only possible > when we keep them in encrypted form not as plain text, which i think is > matched with FreeBSD behavior. Is plain-text passwords even a supported behaviour? I didn't think it was. > Am i right? Is that all about maximum password length in FreeBSD? Did i > miss something?? _PASSWORD_LEN is the defined limit. It's 128 characters by default but could be changed at compile time. There may be other limits, such as in various versions of NIS. > Thank you for all your helps and ideas :) I'm not sure I understand what you're doing, so I don't have any real advice, but I don't see why 128 characters would be that hard to deal with.
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