Compile genpasswd from pkgsrc and invoke with genpasswd -M(n) for max
length of n.....

Hez


Hezekiah McMurray
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
California Institute of Technology
(626)395-6052
hez@caltech.edu

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

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> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Andrzej W[ISO-8859-1] =F3jkowski  wrote:
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> > Once again: sorry for (maybe) lame question, but I can't find answer,
> > how to make
> > NetBSD to use passwords longer than 8 characters.
> > Actually I'm using NetBSD 1.4.
> > If anyone knows what to do, please answer!
> > Regards
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> hmm, passwd(1) says:
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>      The new password should be at least six characters long and not
>      purely alphabetic.  Its total length must be less than _PASSWORD_LEN
>      (currently 128 characters).  Numbers, upper case letters and meta
>      characters are encouraged.
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> I'm moving this question to netbsd-help since its not specific to the pma=
x
> port.
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> -Dan
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