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Date:      Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:47:25 +0100
From:      Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Username and password limits
Message-ID:  <10010017483.20050125004725@wanadoo.fr>
In-Reply-To: <41F5882D.1090606@calarts.edu>
References:  <41F5882D.1090606@calarts.edu>

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Sean Murphy writes:

SM> We would like to use first initial last name for usernames on FreeBSD.
SM> I am use to Solaris which is normally eight and if you have a long 
SM> password on Solaris it doesn't care what you type after 6 characters.

Solaris uses only six-character passwords?  I guess it cannot claim to
be secure, in that case.

-- 
Anthony




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