Subject: Re: Longer passwords
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andrzej_W=F3jkowski?= <admin@cordef.net.pl>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-security
Date: 09/17/2000 16:07:57
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 16:07:57 +0200
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andrzej_W=F3jkowski?= <admin@cordef.net.pl>
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Subject: Re: Longer passwords
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In-Reply-To: <39C277982A5.6FF4ADMIN@mail.cordef.com.pl>; from admin@cordef.net.pl on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 09:25:12PM +0200

On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 09:25:12PM +0200, Andrzej Wójkowski  wrote:
> Hi all
> I've got NetBSD 1.4.1 version for pmax. My problem is, that on my system
> passwords are only 8-chars long. I tried to set lonnger passwords in
> passwd command, but computer logs me in after 8 chars typed. Are there
> any way to change it

No, passwds are effectively limited to 8 chars (for now).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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