Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:47:44 +0200 From: Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD maximum password length Message-ID: <20130617164744.1c4e3d02e57de825d500e309@yahoo.es> In-Reply-To: <CAPkyVLwNAUU_2E0d8Go6OP4m7jqHeHKCWEt5WRhtYcgRBSQ2nQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPkyVLw=m5-3HX7YC-Zqm=OgTLMhNYq4trBSWso8qEmPzqV38Q@mail.gmail.com> <44li69diyv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <CAPkyVLwNAUU_2E0d8Go6OP4m7jqHeHKCWEt5WRhtYcgRBSQ2nQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:49:56 +0330 takCoder <tak.official@gmail.com> wrote: > > I need to moderate the input password in my system's user interface. And I > believe i have tested longer passwords than that, about 1000 characters > long, and there was no limitations, via using this command in a /bin/sh > test shell script : "echo PASSWORD | pw user mod USER -h 0". If I remember well, any password longer than default size is truncated, so passwords a) 'AhN12Njufsn8794432kjfvsnkkJHNDSMNDKh844mNJKnhjhu8u8424' b) 'AhN12Njufsn8794432kj' have the same salt hash value and both validate the user. > Thank you :) --- --- Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es>
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