Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:14:54 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Brian <bri@cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com>, David Talkington <dtalk@prairienet.org>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: opinions on password policies Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10101151412450.77840-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <20010116070124.D91029@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2001-Jan-15 11:41:50 -0800, Brian <bri@cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com> wrote: > >Don't you need to do special stuff on some unix flavors to allow more than > >8 characters?? > > The `standard' for DES passwords is to allow you to enter long > passwords and just truncate them to 8 characters. As long as > the entered password is consistently truncated, it doesn't matter > that you are remembering a longer password. Sometimes I wish it warned folks. I had a user that had "Welcome2Elvis" for the Sun server named Elvis, "Welcome2Tigger" for the NEC box named Tigger, etc... They really had the same password for all machines when they thought they were unique - and they needed to be. - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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