From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 2 18:44:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (ftp.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B99537B52E for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:44:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zeus@tetronsoftware.com) Received: from tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (tetron02.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.106]) by tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA15702 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 20:44:58 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from zeus@tetronsoftware.com) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 20:44:58 -0600 (CST) From: Gene Harris To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Password Length Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just noticed today that my passwords are only being checked to a length of 8 characters. (By this I mean that I only have to type in the first 8 characters of the password. YIKES!) I have minpasswdlen set to 8 in my login.conf file for the user profile. I have studied the man chpass, man passwd and man login.conf pages. Is there a setting someplace that extends the length of the password? This was very unsettling to discover! I am using FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE, cvsup'ed January 26th. Many Thanks, *==============================================* *Gene Harris http://www.tetronsoftware.com* * Home of TeamAccess version control for * * Microsoft Office 97 and 2000 * * FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE - The Power to Serve * * Redhat 6.1 Secure Web Server * *==============================================* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message