Thank you, Lowell, for your reply. :) >> And i've heard that no-maximum-limits for passwords length is only possible >> when we keep them in encrypted form not as plain text, which i think is >> matched with FreeBSD behavior. > >Is plain-text passwords even a supported behaviour? I didn't think it was. >
> I meant i think FreeBSD does not use plain-text passwords, so we won't have a limitation for that reason.. excuse me for my poor english. >_PASSWORD_LEN is the defined limit. It's 128 characters by default but >could be changed at compile time. There may be other limits, such as in >various versions of NIS. ... >I'm not sure I understand what you're doing, so I don't have any real >advice, but I don't see why 128 characters would be that hard to deal >with. I need to moderate the input password in my system's user interface. And I believe i have tested longer passwords than that, about 1000 characters long, and there was no limitations, via using this command in a /bin/sh test shell script : "echo PASSWORD | pw user mod USER -h 0". at least there was no errors reported by *pw*. i did not test the user myself.. and it somehow seems correct, as the encrypted output string may be not a function of the input string, based on the method used. Thank you :) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
