From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 4 15:59:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from supra.rotterdam.luna.net (supra.rotterdam.luna.net [194.151.24.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA74B37B8D4 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 15:59:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ruben@luna.nl) Received: (from ruben@localhost) by supra.rotterdam.luna.net (•8.8.8/tcpwrp+ismx/8.8.8/chk+tcpwrpr) id AAA25357 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 00:59:15 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 00:59:15 +0100 From: Ruben van Staveren To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password Length Message-ID: <20000305005914.A28436@supra.rotterdam.luna.net> References: <14527.54723.140062.247669@onceler.kcilink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Kris Kennaway on Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 01:37:29PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 01:37:29PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: > > > In the man page for BSD/OS they mention a boolean capability > > "widepasswords" that you can set in login.conf. Does FreeBSD have > > such a capability? I think it will in the near future :*) I was at the FreeBSD special interest group meeting which Jordan attended, and he told us Walnut Creek and BSDI are merging. as a result both the FreeBSD and BSD/OS codebases will be merged. not directly though :) Anyway, a official announcement will be made soon I think... -- L U N A In t e r n e t & A u t o m a t i s e r i n g Waar vindt u ons: Ons postadres: Telefoon en fax: Puntegaalstraat 109 Postbus 28013 Tel : 010-750.2000 3024 EB ROTTERDAM 3003 KA ROTTERDAM Fax : 010-750.2002 Web: http://www.luna.nl Email: luna@luna.nl Helpdesk: 010-750.2020 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message