Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 17:34:02 -0400 From: "Jason J. Horton" <jason@intercom.com> To: BUGTRAQ@netscape.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug in login Message-ID: <35EC684A.B6F5FFC5@intercom.com> References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980901121758.865A-100000@llama.ackley.net>
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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 messagehelp
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