Username and password limits

[Anthony Atkielski]

Sean Murphy writes:

SM> We would like to use first initial last name for usernames on FreeBSD.
SM> I am use to Solaris which is normally eight and if you have a long 
SM> password on Solaris it doesn't care what you type after 6 characters.

Solaris uses only six-character passwords?  I guess it cannot claim to
be secure, in that case.

-- 
Anthony