Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 00:23:29 +0100 From: "H. Eckert" <ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of Passwords/etc in FreeBSD-stable Message-ID: <19991112002328.B81323@server.nostromo.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911101012470.91213-100000@hub.freebsd.org>; from Kris Kennaway on Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 10:20:21AM -0800 References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911101306001.18172-100000@zipperii.zip.com.au> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911101012470.91213-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
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Quoting Kris Kennaway (kris@hub.freebsd.org): > I don't see what you'd need a maximum password length variable for, but > there is already a minpasswordlen capability. Pre-3.x truncated passwords over 8 chars. As 3.x now supports longer passwords I found I had trouble with Netatalk filesharing, as the Mac's input field only allows 8 chars. So it could be useful in a user's environment to restrict the length so that the users can't set a password that's not going to work for them anyway... I have not yet tried whether MacOS 9 changes this behaviour, though... Greetings, Ripley -- H. Eckert, 10777 Berlin, Germany, http://www.in-berlin.de/User/nostromo/ ISO 8859-1: Ä=Ae, Ö=Oe, Ü=Ue, ä=ae, ö=oe, ü=ue, ß=sz. "(Technobabbel)" (Jetrel) - "Müssen wir uns diesen Schwachsinn wirklich anhören?" (Neelix) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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