From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Sep 1 14:34:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29220 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 14:34:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.intercom.com ([207.51.55.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA29210 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 14:34:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@intercom.com) Received: from intercom.com (shagalicious.com [206.98.165.250]) by mail.intercom.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA26251; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:33:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35EC684A.B6F5FFC5@intercom.com> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 17:34:02 -0400 From: "Jason J. Horton" X-Sender: "Jason J. Horton" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en]C-NECCK (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: BUGTRAQ@netscape.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug in login References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org how is it possible to enable long passwords in FreeBSD? -J Jason Ackley wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Justin Priestley wrote: > > > Not sure if this is known yet. > > > > > > I use FreeBSD and also work on BSDI. If a user has numbers on the end > > of their passwd, this is not recognised. Add a user and telnet to your > > machine. Make sure the passwd has numbers on the end. > > Unable to replicate on BSDI 3.1, how long was the password before the > numbers started? What is the password length setting in /etc/login.conf? > > After the default setting of 8 chars, nothing matters, BSDI does support > 'widepasswords' of 128 chars though that you must enable in > /etc/login.conf. See login.conf(5) > > -- > jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message