Username and password limits

[Tillman Hodgson]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 04:00:55PM -0800, Sean Murphy wrote:
> Sorry eight for password as well.
> Does any know the limits for FreeBSD?

man 1 passwd says

    The new password should be at least six characters long (which may be
    overridden using the login.conf(5) ``minpasswordlen'' setting for a
    user's login class) and not purely alphabetic.  Its total length must be
    less than _PASSWORD_LEN (currently 128 characters).

-T


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