Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 13:40:13 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: Steven Yang <syang@directhit.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: how come my passwords can only be 8 characters long? Message-ID: <35E5C42D.576806D4@dal.net> References: <839A86AB6CE4D111A52200104B938D43059F04@MOE>
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Steven Yang wrote:
>
> Hi, it seems that all passwords are limited to 8 characters.
I'm confused by this. Why does it seem so? And are you sure that you
mean passwords and not usernames?
> I'm using
> FreeBSD 2.2.5 and 2.2.6. Is there a way to make passwords longer?
If you actually mean passwords, my guess is that DES is installed on
that machine. You want to rebuild or reinstall the system without that
option. If you mean usernames, it's fairly simple to rebuild the system
to use > 8 character usernames. Either write the list or write me
privately and I'll give you info on that.
Good luck,
Doug
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