Subject: Re: password lengths...
From: Crystal (cmorillo@kinkaid.org)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 12:55:48 EDT
on 10/6/00 11:45 AM, Crystal at cmorillo@kinkaid.org wrote:
> Ok, on BOTH versions I just gave myself a 9 character password and it let me
> login AFTER it popped up the warning window about having too many
> characters. Goofy.
>
> So I guess its up to the admins to decide whether they want to spend all day
> fielding questions about warning windows popping up from users... or just
> have them use 8 char passwords. :)
>
> FYI, AppleShare client 3.8.6 on OS 9.0.4
>
> C.
>
Correction to the above statement. Since we are using DES encryption on
these systems, it doesn't care what the rest of your password is after 8
characters. Sorry for any confusion.
C.
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