Re: passwords longer than 8 characters


Subject: Re: passwords longer than 8 characters
From: Harald Wagener (hwagener@fcb-wilkens.com)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 03:59:58 EDT


Thomas Kaiser wrote:
>
> am 26.07.2001 20:25 Uhr schrieb Miller.Jonathan:
>
> > there's a problem when people have passwords longer than 8 characters.
>
> Support for more than 8 chars in passwords came with DHX authentication.
>

Where is this limitation? Is it in the uam from netatalk, or is it built in into
the
chooser? If it is part of the uam, it would be nice to lift that limitation,
because then
one would be able to authenticate against external services (i.e., LDAP) with
longer passwords.

H.

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