Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] denying access
From: Bill Stewart-Cole (bill@finan.com)
Date: Wed Jan 21 1998 - 15:54:37 EST
At 11:52 AM -0600 1/21/98, Andrew McNabb wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Gregor Retti wrote:
>
>>
>> there is a restcrition on password length for AFPservers (at least for
>> MacOS < 8) of 8 chars. so if you force the UNIX-only users to have longer
>> passwords, they wont be able to log in via appletalk (not very smooth but
>> might be a workaround).
>>
>
>The same restriction applies to all of the UNIX machines that I have ever
>used.
Maybe so, but it does not apply to all Unix machines. Linux, Digital Unix,
and Ultrix definitely have packages available for longer passwords, and I
am fairly certain that FreeBSD does as well. Any authentication system that
can hand off to Radius has access to 16-character passwords as well.
---- Bill Stewart-Cole This space for rent. Inquire within.
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