Thank you all for the points you mentioned around this topic. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Mark Felder <f...@feld.me> wrote: >There isn't a max password length as far as I'm aware, ...
On Jun 17, 2013, at 7:47 AM, Eduardo Morras wrote: > > If I remember well, any password longer than default size is truncated, so passwords > > a) ' AhN12Njufsn8794432kjfvsnkkJHNDSMNDKh844mNJKnhjhu8u8424' > b) 'AhN12Njufsn8794432kj' > > have the same salt hash value and both validate the user. > My test machine is currently an old 8.2 one, but the final machine may be upgraded. on this machine, if i enter a password longer than 128 characters, extra characters will be exactly trimmed. So, the final password for any user with a greater-equal input password string, with same first 128 characters, would be the first 128characters. has this been changed in Freebsd 8.3+ to what you explained, Eduardo, or this is the respected behavior? or i am wrong somewhere? Thank you :) On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Michael Sierchio <ku...@tenebras.com>wrote: > I know this may seem off-the-wall to some, but I pasted a hashed > password for a user under 9.1 into the /etc/passwd entry for that user > on an 8.3 machine, and auth continues to work properly. That's nice. > > - M > _______________________________________________ > 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" > _______________________________________________ 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"